REDUPLICATIO  重言法

REPETITIO of the same expression immediately after itself, within the same colon/line.

Plain repetition (to be distinguished from lexicalised reduplication) /...XX.../

Traditionally GEMINATIO.

See the excellent large dictionary of reduplication by Wang Weimao, with 7600 reduplicative words.

Hypernym
  • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
    • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
Hyponym
REF: Lausberg 616-618

Greek/Latin: Spontaneous repetition is quite common in Greek.

Ancient Chinese: Reduplication is common in word formation but must be distinguished from geminatio which is syntactic, freely emphatic, mimetic of spontaneous speech. LY 天厭之 ! 天厭之 , and 觚哉，觚哉。

Rhetorical device locations: 46