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Schesis Onomaton (skee'-sister-ah-no-maw-ton): Figure of repetition in which a set of two or more than different words having the same (or very almost the same) meaning occurs within the same sentence; a successive series of words or phrases whose meanings are generally equivalent.

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Ex: "America is all about opportunity.  That'south why my parents came to America more than 40 years agone. And that's why most of your parents came here generations agone in search of an opportunity , a chance , a off-white milk shake ."

-- Bobby Jindal, Second Gubernatorial Countdown Address

Further Examples

Mr. Praline : "Wait, matee, this parrot wouldn't "voom" if I put 4000 volts through it. It's bleeding demised! "

Shopkeeper: "Information technology's non. It's -- It'southward pining!"

Mr. Praline : "Information technology's not pining! Information technology's passed on! This parrot is no more ! It has ceased to be! It'south expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot!! Information technology's a stiff! Insufficient of life , it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed information technology to the perch information technology would be pushing up the daisies! It's run down the mantle and joined the choir invisible!! This is an EX-PARROT! "

Shopkeeper: "Well, I'd better replace it, so."

-- delivered by John Cleese and Michael Palin, from Monty Python'southward, Dead Parrot Sketch

"Ah sinful nation , a people laden with iniquity , a seed of evildoers , children that are corrupters: they accept forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone abroad astern. "

-- Isaiah i:iv, KJV (delivered by Max McLean)

"Let there be no illusions nigh the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It'south tough , hard , not easy . Simply a spirit of harmony volition survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a mutual destiny."

-- Barbara Jordan, 1976 DNC Keynote Address

Finnegan O'Neil: "Why are you in a wheelchair?"

Monte Wildhorn: "Can y'all keep a secret?"

Finnegan O'Neil: "Fifty-fifty if they torture me."

Monte Wildhorn: "I'one thousand attempting to defraud the Freedom Mutual Insurance conglomerate out of a million dollars."

Finnegan O'Neil: "What'due south ' defraud ?'"

Monte Wildhorn: " Cheat . Snooker . Fleece . Bamboozle ."

Finnegan O'Neil: "So, you can walk?"

Monte Wildhorn: "I tin can run. Merely I have to be conscientious. I mean, if those Freedom Mutual boys catch me while I'm out for a quick jog, it's all over. I can osculation that million bucks goodbye and say hello to Yuma State Prison."

Finnegan O'Neil: "You could go to jail?"

Monte Wildhorn: "Oh, yes. But, what's jail? As John Milton one time said, 'The mind is its ain identify.'"

-- delivered by Morgan Freeman and Emma Fuhrmann (from the movie The Magic of Belle Island)

"Every fourth dimension you lot interruption the seal on that liquor bottle, that's a Regime seal you're breaking! Oh, I say and I say information technology again, ya been had ! Ya been took ! Ya been hoodwinked ! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok! This is what He does."

-- delivered by Denzel Washington (from the film Malcolm Ten)

"In Isaiah [nine:half-dozen]: 'For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He volition be called Wonderful Counselor , Mighty God , Everlasting Male parent , Prince of Peace .'"

-- Mike Harper, KVNE Radio (Tyler, TX)

"But four years ago Jimmy Swaggart said this virtually me. He said, 'This here song past The Constabulary, ''Murder by Numbers'', was written by Satan , performed by the Sons of Satan -- Beelzebub , Friction match , The Horned One .'"

-- Sting (live with Frank Zappa in Concert)

"I object to those stories that say I'm a lame duck. I'grand not a lame duck. I'1000 a sprinting duck. I'thousand a hustling duck. I'k a "leadership of the costless world" duck. And I'm standing to spread our agenda globally , and around the world , besides equally internationally ."

-- George W. Bush, 2006 White Business firm Correspondents' Dinner

Dr. Stantz: "You don't know what it's like out there. I've worked in the private sector. They await results."

Dr. Venkman: "For whatever reasons, Ray, call it fate ; call information technology luck ; telephone call it karma . I believe that everything happens for a reason. I believe that we were destined to get thrown out of this dump."

Dr. Stantz: "For what purpose?"

Dr. Venkman: "To go into business organization for ourselves."

-- delivered by Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd (from the motion-picture show Ghost Busters)

Note: Can y'all spot the anaphora ?

" Friends . Countrymen . Russians! "

-- delivered by Rade Serbedzija (from the moving picture The Saint)

Louis:  "Hey, uh, where�s your telephone?"

Outback Bartender:  "Around nigh the dunnies."

Louis:  "You guys have a Denny�s?"

Outback Bartender:  "No, the dunny . The bog trough ? The long drop ? The thunderbox ?"

Louis:  "You know what, um, I�one thousand just gonna look for it by the bathroom ."

-- delivered by Anthony Anderson & Emma Jane Fowler (from the movie Kangaroo Jack)

C.J. Cregg: "One other matter."

Sam Seaborn: "Are nosotros done?"

C.J. Cregg: "No, Sam, when I say 'ane other thing' that means that we're not washed, that there'due south one-other-matter. I'm your starting time phone call."

Sam Seaborn: "When?"

C.J. Cregg: "Earlier. Now. In the future. Whatever time you're into something and you don't know what -- and you can't tell me that you thought there was nothing to it 'cause you sat down with Josh and you sabbatum down with Toby. Any time you're into something and y'all don't know what, you don't continue if from me. I'k your first phone call. I'm your commencement line of defense. You take to let me protect you, and yous have to let me protect the President."

Sam Seaborn:" Is that what this is nearly?"

C.J. Cregg: "What this is about, Sam, is you're a loftier profile , very visible , much noticed member -- "

Sam Seaborn: "You only said three things that all mean the same matter."

C.J. Cregg: "You're non going to permit this out of your teeth?"

Sam Seaborn: "Tin can I go now, C.J, considering what I recall it's about is y'all. Over again, letting the character cops win in a forfeit considering you don't have the guts or the strength or the backbone to say, 'We know what's right from incorrect and this none of your damn business organization!'"

C.J. Cregg: "Actually?"

Sam Seaborn: "Yeah!"

C.J. Cregg: "You just said 3 things that all mean the aforementioned thing."

-- delivered by Allison Janey and Rob Lowe (from the Tv set series The Due west Wing, Season 1, Episode iii)

"In that location is no room in this country for any flag except our ain. In that location is no room for the ruby-red flag. It is opposed to everything our government stands for. Information technology stands for chaos , anarchy , and ruin . Nail it."

-- Leonard Wood

Note: Can you spot the anaphora and the anadiplosis ?

Alice: Yous're going to be very happy. Mrs. Martin is a lovely woman."

Greg Brady: "She's outta sight , Dad."

Peter Brady: " Cracking ."

Bobby Brady: I call up she's neato .

Mike Brady: "Well, that makes it unanimous. I think she's pretty special , myself."

-- delivered by Ann B. Davis, Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland, & Robert Reed (from the Tv set series, The Brady Bunch, Ep. i)

"Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, simply not the 1 information technology needs right now. So, we'll hunt him...because he can have it...because he's not our hero. He's a Silent Guardian , a Watchful Protector , a Night Knight ."

-- delivered by Gary Oldman (from the movie The Dark Knight)

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Source: https://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/scesisonomaton.htm

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