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Sirena
Since: Jan, 2021
eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
22nd Jan, 2021 08:17:17 AM
Variant 2 involves an Alliterative List.
Edited by eroock
tweekatten
Since: Oct, 2019
22nd Jan, 2021 08:58:36 AM
That's brilliant, thanks.
A list of rules, desiderata, maxims, principles etc. is enumerated, but one particular item is repeated, perhaps more than once. For comical effect, the list is presented as a fairly set in stone sort of thing where you would expect the set of items to be carefully selected to be exhaustive and mutually exclusive - so that any repetition seem incongruous.
Variant one: the repeated item is clearly something that the lister is preoccupied with. E.g. a homophobic boys' club, every other rule being "no poofters" (Monty Python).
Variant two: the lister confidently promised n items but runs out and tries to blag it. E.g. the five Ds of dodgeball. "Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive... and Dodge."
Variant three: the repetition is presented as genuinely different. E.g. "single yellow line: no parking; double yellow line: _absolutely positively_ no parking"