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In rhetoric, epizeuxis, also known as palilogia, is the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, typically within the same sentence, for vehemence or emphasis. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A closely related rhetorical device is diacope , which involves word repetition that is broken up by a single intervening word, or a small number of ...
Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in French secondary schools is based on Erasmian pronunciation, but it is modified to match the phonetics and even, in the case of αυ and ευ, the orthography of French. Vowel length distinction, geminate consonants and pitch accent are discarded completely, which matches the current phonology of Standard French.
Epizeuxis – emphasizing an idea by repeating a single word. Eristic – communicating with the aim of winning the argument regardless of truth. Erotema – rhetorical question; a question is asked to which an answer is not expected. [1] Ethos – a rhetorical appeal to an audience based on the speaker/writer's credibility.
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Epizeuxis: repetition of a single word, with no other intervening words. Hendiadys: use of two nouns to express an idea when it normally would consist of an adjective and a noun. Hendiatris: use of three nouns to express one idea. Homeoteleuton: words with the same ending. Hypallage: a transferred epithet from a conventional choice of wording. [9]
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Old English on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Old English in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
In rhetoric, antanaclasis (/ æ n t ə ˈ n æ k l ə s ɪ s, ˌ æ n t æ n ə ˈ k l æ s ɪ s /; from the Greek: ἀντανάκλασις, antanáklasis, meaning "reflection", [1] from ἀντί anti, "against", ἀνά ana, "up" and κλάσις klásis "breaking") is the literary trope in which a single word or phrase is repeated, but in two different senses. [2]