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📌 Epizeuxis

Definition:
Epizeuxis is a rhetorical device in which a word or phrase is repeated immediately, with no words in between, to create emphasis, intensity, or emotional effect.

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✅ Example

“Alone, alone, all alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea!” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

• The repetition of “alone” emphasizes isolation and despair.

Another example:

“Never, never, never give up.” — Winston Churchill

• The repeated “never” stresses determination and urgency.

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And there you have it! Now go ahead and use epizeuxis in your CXC prep/ CSEC prep.

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