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In rhetoric, an epizeuxis is the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, for vehemence or emphasis.〔Arthur Quinn, ''Figures of Speech'', Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, 1982.〕 ==Examples== * "Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."—Winston Churchill * "O horror, horror, horror."—''Macbeth'' * "Words, words, words."—''Hamlet'' * "Break, Break, Break"—Alfred, Lord Tennyson * "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God."—Isaiah 40.1 * "Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain."—Guy Gavriel Kay * "Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers. Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers!"—Steve Ballmer * "Education, education, education."—Tony Blair * "Never, never, never, never, never!"—''King Lear'' * "Location, location, location."—common phrase tied to real estate * "The horror, the horror"—Joseph Conrad, ''Heart of Darkness'' * "The fools, the fools, the fools!"—Patrick Pearse〔http://www.easter1916.net/oration.htm〕 * "No, no, no!"—Margaret Thatcher * "Yes, yes, yes!"—Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz * "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"—Henry David Thoreau, ''Walden'' * "Scotch, scotch, scotch, scotchy, scotchy scotch."—Ron Burgundy, ''Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy'' * "Fun, fun, fun, fun."—Rebecca Black * "Baby, baby, baby ooh"—Justin Bieber * "But you never know now do you now do you now do you."—David Foster Wallace, ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men'' * "Round here we stay up very, very, very, very late".—Counting Crows, "Round Here" * "Tora! Tora! Tora!"- A 1970 movie of the same name focused around the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Epizeuxis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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