Epizeuxis (e-pi-zook’-sis): Repetition of words with no others between, for vehemence or emphasis.
400 shot in the head, the back, the stomach, the heart, the lungs, the throat and neck. Mothers. Fathers. Daughters. Sons. Brothers. Sisters. Everyone.
Kidnapped. Sold. Ransomed. Crucified. Beheaded. Burned. Buried.
Stoned to death. Beaten to death. Bled to death. To death!
Death. Death. Death. Death. Simple. Startling. Stinking. Death.
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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