Diacope

Definition:
A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase broken up by one or more intervening words. Plural // diacopae // or // diacopes //.

Essentially, when two words or phrases are repeated, but separated by one or more words.

Pronunciation:
di AK oh pee ===Common usage examples: === // I tried //, oh, //I tried//, but to no avail. "I knew it. Born //in a hotel room//--and goddamn it--died //in a hotel room//." (Last words of playwright Eugene O'Neill)    One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. (The Fellowship of the Ring, T.R.R Tolkien)

Examples from E.B. White’s Essays
“It was bronze on walnut, heavy enough to make an anchor for a rowboat , but I didn’t need a rowboat

anchor , and this thing had my name on it.” (White, 5) “ One ring is always bigger than three. One rider, one aerialist, is always greater than six.” (White, 180)

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