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Conduplication

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Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase within close proximity to heighten emotional intensity, rhythm, or rhetorical impact.

Detailed Definition
Conduplication is a rhetorical figure involving the immediate repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis or emotional intensification (a form of epizeuxis); in poetry, this technique creates urgency, obsession, or ritual incantation, as in Walt Whitman’s “I celebrate myself, and sing myself” or the insistent refrains of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool,” where repetition becomes a tool of sonic insistence and psychological depth rather than mere redundancy.
Example
Example in poetry:
Conduplication: Repetition for emphasis: “Never, never, never give in” (Churchill); Whitman’s anaphora: “I celebrate myself, and sing myself”; Original: “Again and again, the wound opens”
Additional Notes
Act of doubling or repeating words/phrases. Creates emphasis and rhythm. Related to: conduplicatio, repetition. Classical rhetorical figure.
Also Known As
Word repetition emphatic repetition
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