epizeuxis

Etymology

Gk. epi, "upon" and zeugnunai or zeugnumi, "to yoke" or "closely join together"

Synonyms, partial synonyms, and alternate spellings

conduplicatio, duplication, iteratio, iteration, palilogia geminatio, subjunctio the underlay or the coocko-spel, traduction

Definition

The occurrence of at least one of the same lexemes immediately adjacent to one another.

Example

"No, no," I heard myself yelling. "Black men! Brothers! Black Brothers! That's not the way. We're law-abiding. We're a law-abiding people and a slow-to-anger people." (Ellison 1952:275)

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. Random House, Inc., 1952.