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Diacope

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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

Repetition of a word or phrase with a small number of intervening words.

Detailed Definition
Diacope is a rhetorical device involving the repetition of a word or phrase with one or more intervening words, as in “Bond, James Bond” or “Alone, all alone”; in poetry, it emphasizes emotion, urgency, or obsession through insistent recurrence with slight variation.
Example
Example in poetry:
Diacope: "Bond, James Bond" (repetition with word between); "Alone, all alone, beneath the moon" (Coleridge); "Never, never, never give up" (Churchill); "Hope is the thing with feathers—feathers, hope" (Dickinson inverted); "Lost, lost to all but memory" (emphatic grief)
Additional Notes
Rhetorical repetition of word or phrase with intervening material (e.g., "Bond. James Bond"). Creates emphasis and rhythm. Related to epizeuxis (immediate repetition) and anaphora. Memorable in dramatic contexts.
Other Meanings of “Diacope”
Also Known As
Repetition with gap Spaced echo Interrupted recurrence Divided repeat
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