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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)
***
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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