There are so many of these terms! There's legitimately a word for everything.
accismus - A feigned refusal of that which is earnestly desired.
example: Thank you, but I can't let you pay for that all on your own.
conduplicatio - The repetition of a word or words. A general term for repetition sometimes carrying the more specific meaning of repetition of words in adjacent phrases or clauses.
example: Life is what is being cherish at this wedding, oh sweet life.
epistrophe - Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words.
example: What they had is now lost, what we had is also lost, now I am still lost.
tapinosis - Giving a name to something which diminishes it in importance.
example: It was recently said of the Statue of Liberty that she is, "just a green lady in the middle of an ugly lake."
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