epizeuxisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˌɛpɪˈz(j)uːksɪs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌɛpɪˈz(j)uksɪs/
• ハイフネーション: ep‧i‧zeux‧is

名詞

epizeuxis (countable and uncountable, plural epizeuxes)

1. (rhetoric) The repetition of words in immediate succession for emphasis.
   • 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Epizeuxis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 78:

     An Epizeuxis twice a word repeats,
     And graces thus the theme on which it treats.

   • 2020 February 17, Richard Cooke, “Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet”, in Wired:

     Wikipedia weds this ranging interest to the kind of pertinence where Larry David's “Pretty, pretty good!” is given as an example of rhetorical epizeuxis.

   • 2022, Clive Bloom, The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins, page 39:

     'O horror, horror, horror', Macduff cries, his epizeuxis reflecting a lack in the symbolic order itself.

参考

参照

• Silva Rhetoricae

Further reading

• epizeuxis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia