Epimone
Epimone (e-pi'-mo-nee) is the repetition of a phrase or question; dwelling on a point. “Remember thee? / Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat / In this distracted globe. Remember thee?” Hamlet, 1.5.99.
Quotes including the Figure of Speech Epimone
Set down, set down your honorable load
Read the QuoteSet down, set down your honorable load,Epimone
If honor may be shrouded in a hearse,Personification
Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament
Th’ untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.
They set down the bier.
Poor key-cold figure of a holy king,Alliteration
Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster,
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Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me
Read the QuoteGhost
Adieu, adieu, adieu.Epizeuxis Remember me.
He exits.
Hamlet
O all you host of heaven! O Earth!Anapodotons & Apostrophes What else?
And shall I couple hell?Pysma O fie! Hold, hold, my heart,
And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,
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The time was once, when thou unurg’d wouldst vow
Read the QuoteThe time was onceHyperbaton when thou unurged wouldst vowAnastrophe
That never words were music to thine ear,
That never object pleasing in thine eye,
That never touch well welcome to thy hand,
That never meat sweet-savored in thy taste,Anaphora
Unless I spake, or looked,
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Fie, this is hot weather, gentlemen
Read the QuoteFalstaff
Fie, this is hot weather, gentlemen. Have you
provided me here half a dozen sufficient men?
Shallow
Marry, have we, sir. Will you sit?
They sit at a table.
Falstaff
Let me see them, I beseech you.
Thy mother’s son! Like enough, and thy
father’s shadow.
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Wherefore? Why, doth not every earthly thing
Read the QuoteWherefore? Why, doth not every earthly thing
Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny
The story that is printed in her blood?—
Do not live, Hero, do not ope thine eyes,
For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die,
Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames,
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What’s your name, sir?
Read the QuoteFalstaff
What’s your name, sir? Of what condition are
you, and of what place, I pray?
Colevile
I am a knight, sir, and my name is Colevile of
the Dale.
Falstaff
Well then, Colevile is your name, a knight is
your degree, and your place the Dale. Colevile shall
be still your name,
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Let the watch come forth
Read the QuoteDogberry
Let the watch come forth. Masters, I charge you in the
Prince’s name, accuse these men.
First Watchman
This man said, sir, that Don John, the
Prince’s brother, was a villain.
Dogberry
Write down Prince John a villain. Why,
this is flat perjury, to call a prince’s brother villain!