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When Mary, the hyper-botoxed judge from So You Think You Can Dance screams and says "You are ON the hot tamale train! Yes you are!"
Is that considered a diacope?
From the handbook of rhetorical devices:
Diacope: repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase as a method of emphasis:
We will do it, I tell you; we will do it.
We give thanks to Thee, 0 God, we give thanks . . . . --Psalm 75:1 (NASB)
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It's not quite right.
It would be like "We can do it, yes we can."
(Oh yeah, and here's a shout-out to the winner Janine, my own favorite dancer. Baby, I dialed your number. Yes, I did!)
Is that considered a diacope?
From the handbook of rhetorical devices:
Diacope: repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase as a method of emphasis:
We will do it, I tell you; we will do it.
We give thanks to Thee, 0 God, we give thanks . . . . --Psalm 75:1 (NASB)
***
It's not quite right.
It would be like "We can do it, yes we can."
(Oh yeah, and here's a shout-out to the winner Janine, my own favorite dancer. Baby, I dialed your number. Yes, I did!)
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Also, words like "diacope" make me happy. And "chiasmus" and "anadiplosis", although I know they're not right. ;D
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and how cool is it that you actually looked up the term. me, i just say "there's some latin term for what Mary's doing." you: you look it up.