Practicing Diacope

Worksheet Description

This worksheet is designed to help students understand and practice using diacope, a rhetorical device that involves the repetition of a word or phrase with intervening words for emphasis. It distinguishes between two types of diacope – vocative, which emphasizes a phrase by repetition, and elaborative, which adds extra information for emphasis. Students are given sentences and instructed to rewrite them twice, first by adding a vocative diacope and then by creating an elaborative diacope. This exercise allows students to see how the addition of repeated phrases can alter the tone and intensity of a statement.

The worksheet is teaching students the stylistic effect of diacope in writing. It shows them how repetition can be used to emphasize key ideas and enhance emotional expression. By practicing with both vocative and elaborative diacopes, students learn to appreciate the versatility of this literary device and its power to make language more vivid and memorable. This activity encourages creative thinking and helps students develop a more dynamic writing style.