Diacope

Further, the repetition of the short prepositional phrase, which forms a rhetorical diacope, (6)"like him, like him," also helps keep the poetic and syntactical balance of the line.

(6.) Diacope (Greek): "to cut in two, cut through"--a rhetorical term showing repetition of a word with one or more between, usually to express deep feelings.

The poetic forms of Shakespeare's three single-sentenced sonnets

We also consider specific rhetorical figures in the tales that convey the psychological/emotional states of Poe's frenzied narrators (for instance, litotes, meiosis, epizeuxis, diacope).

Devices of repetition are foregrounded in "The Tell-Tale Heart," and there Poe combines frequently two such devices - epizeuxis and diacope. All figures that involve repetition can be used to indicate heightened emotions, and the ploce, epizeuxis and diacope in this tale of paranoid schizophrenia undermine the frantic narrator's insistence that he can relate his story "calmly."

A catalogue of rhetorical and other literary terms from American literature and oratory

In this same scene, Macbeth also uses diacope, a figure in which the same word is used first as a modifier and then as a nominal.

let"), diacope, and alliteration, all emphasizing words - light, eye, and see - that are part of a group of iterative images of light and dark and seeing found throughout the play:

"Strange things I have in head, that will to hand": echoes of sound and sense in Macbeth