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Repetition & Refrain

Diacope

dy-ACK-oh-pee / daɪˈækəpiː

Repeating a word or phrase with a short interruption in between — 'Bond. James Bond.' The return of the word feels like insistence: once was not enough.

"Put out the light, and then put out the light." — Othello

Don't confuse it with Anaphora, Epizeuxis. Epizeuxis repeats with no gap at all; anaphora repeats only at clause openings.

Drill its family — Repetition & RefrainForge one yourself →

In the Reader — 2 excerpts

The bull was squared on all four feet to be killed, and Romero killed directly below us. He killed not as he had been forced to by the last bull, but as he wanted to. He profiled directly in front of the bull, drew the sword out of the folds of the
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises · open the passage →
honor to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat. Amalinze was the great wrestler
— Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart · open the passage →

The rest of the family

Anaphora Epistrophe Symploce Epanalepsis Anadiplosis Gradatio / Climax Epizeuxis Conduplicatio Polyptoton