epizeuxis

Epizeuxis or palilogia is the repetition of a single word, with no other words in between.

Can any linguistics experts out there confirm that what we are witnessing is an emerging epidemic of epizeuxis?

(Fans of technical rhetoric terms will identify this as an example of epizeuxis.)

In rhetoric, an epizeuxis is the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, for vehemence or emphasis.

Hill also analysed antimetabole, epanalepsis, epizeuxis and "the repetition of a clause with an inversion in the order of its grammatical parts."

Described as a writer's tool-kit or recipe book, The Elements of Eloquence outlines 38 rhetorical figures (e.g., hyperbole, epizeuxis, catachresis) that, according to Forsyth, can be learned by almost anybody.

Epizeuxis is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family, it is considered to be a synonym of Idia by many authors, but some retain it as a valid genus.

As a rhetorical device (epizeuxis), it has already been re-used by Volkswagen in her publicity campaign (see: Słownik IV RP or Polictical vocabulary of the 4th Republic of Poland).

Vickers also attempts to show that Shakespeare is much more adept at employing rhetorical devices than Peele; and gives numerous examples throughout the play of the use of antimetabole, anadiplosis, epanalepsis, epizeuxis, articulus, epanorthosis, epistrophe, aposiopesis, anaphora, polyptoton, synoeciosis, polysyndeton and asteismus.