Rhetorical Device
Epizeuxis
Methapore
Epistrophe
Examples
For no government is better than the men who compose it, and I want the best, and we need the best, and we deserve the best.
-John F. Kennedy
And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth
-Abraham Lincoln
Definition
Definition
Examples
To read, to read, to read, to live through the life.
Miguel de Unamuno
Saint, saint, saint is the Lord (the first benediction of the Shemá, in the Jewish rite).
Definition
Examples
The wheels of justice turn slowly
The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster area.
The Epizeuxis, Epizeusis, Palilogy or Reduplication is a rhetorical figure or literary figure that consists of repeating a word inside the same verse or terms of reference.
Comparing two things saying one is other
Repetition of words at the beginning of a phrase.
Eponym
Definition
Examples
HYPERBOLE
Substitutes for a particular attibute the name of a famous person recognized for that attribute.
Gabrielle Falloppio 1523 - 1562 → "Fallopian tube"
Americo Vespucio - Marine → América
DELIBERATELY EXAGGERATES CONDITIONS FOR EMPHASIS OR EFFECT
EXAMPLES
SMILE FROM EAR TO EAR
FASTER THAN LIGHT
John Down - British doctor → Down's Syndrome
