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The same figure may also sometimes be employed
ironically, with a view to disparagement. Similar to
such doubling of words is repetition following a
parenthesis, but the effect is stronger. “I have seen
the property alas! (for though all my tears are shed,
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my grief still clings to me deep-rooted in my heart),
the property, I say, of Gnaeus Pompeius put up for
sale by the cruel voice of the public crier.”1 “You
still live, and live not to abate your audacity, but to
increase it.”2
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