What is this rhetorical device called? (1 Viewer)

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"Decency, human decency, universal human decency."

This is from Rudd's Sorry Day speech. As you can see, he uses separate clauses to "build up" a final three-part noun-phrase.

What is this called? Epistrophe is the repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses, but is there a special name for this building up?

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Also, tricolon may be something you want to refer to? Search it up. :)
 

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