Epizeuxis

What is Epizeuxis?


1.

The action of emphasising a word or phrase by repeating it.

- No, no, no! That's completely wrong

- *That* scene in 'When Harry met Sally'.

Why on earth does the example have to include the word being defined? OK then: epizeuxis.


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