Definition:
Repetition broken up by one or more intervening words.
Etymology:
From the Greek, "a cutting in two"Examples:
- "Put out the light, and then put out the light."
(William Shakespeare, Othello V.ii) - "I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room--and goddamn it--died in a hotel room."
(last words of playwright Eugene O'Neill) - "Someone ate the baby,
It's rather sad to say.
Someone ate the baby
So she won't be out to play.
We'll never hear her whiny cry
Or have to feel if she is dry.
We'll never hear her asking, 'Why?'
Someone ate the baby."
(Shel Silverstein, "Dreadful") - "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."
(Paul Harvey) - "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
(Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts) - "I'm gonna cut out now with this unusual song I'm dedicating to an unusual person who makes me feel kind of unusual."
(Pump Up the Volume, 1990) - "You're not fully clean until you're Zestfully clean."
(advertising slogan for Zest soap) - "Scott Farkus staring out at us with his yellow eyes. He had yellow eyes! So help me, God! Yellow eyes!"
(Ralphie Parker, A Christmas Story, 1983) - "[British Prime Minister] Blair sounded like a man who had spent the morning riffling through handbooks of classical rhetoric: 'This indulgence has to stop. Because it is dangerous. It is dangerous if such regimes disbelieve us. Dangerous if they think they can use weakness, our hesitation, even the natural urges of our democracy towards peace, against us. Dangerous because one day they will mistake our innate revulsion against war for permanent incapacity.'"
(Anthony Lane, "The Prime Minister," The New Yorker, March 31, 2003)
Pronunciation: di AK oh pee
