Timeline for What is it called when someone presents two choices which are the same to emphasize the importance of the option?
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| Feb 27, 2020 at 10:20 | comment | added | Greybeard | It seems to me that the form in the example is relatively recent, and as such has not been given the honour of a formal classification and a (Latin or Greek) title. I would call it "rhetorical repetition". | |
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| Jun 2, 2019 at 8:28 | answer | added | user191110 | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 10, 2019 at 0:06 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Six of one, half dozen of the other. | |
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| Jan 10, 2019 at 2:57 | comment | added | Lawrence | Diacope comes close. Fairly close. :) | |
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| Dec 10, 2018 at 22:04 | history | edited | Laurel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
better title.
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| Dec 10, 2018 at 21:58 | answer | added | Adhemar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 15:26 | comment | added | John Lawler | It's a rhetorical question with an extra twist. The garden variety RhQ in this case is Is it hot out here or isn't it hot out here?, which is simply a duplex Y/N question, giving both options (though conventionally it implicates the answer that, yes, it's hot out here). The twist in this one is that removing the negation in the second disjunct removes the option of answering "no"; i.e, it's implying that it's hot out here, and there's no denying it. | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 15:04 | comment | added | Dan Bron | This has some family resemblance to reduplication, but it doesn't quite fit the classical definition of that term. | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 14:56 | history | asked | Chris Al E | CC BY-SA 4.0 |