Writing Devices - Rhetoric Diacope Examples: Effect: to convey desperation - To be, or not to be! - Shakespeare - Burn, baby, burn - They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead - William CoryRomeo, - Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? - Shakespeare - A horse! A horse! A kingdom for my horse! - Shakespeare - O villain, villain, smiling damned villain - Shakespeare - Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline. Effect: for emphasis - Beauty, real beauty, ends where intellectual expression begins - Oscar Wilde - fetch, boy, fetch - Das EFX Effect: to convey finality - Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead - Quentin Tarantino - From sea to shining sea - Katherine Lee Bates - Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are free at last - Old Negro Spiritual