anadiplosis

Examples

• All

• Here, the use of anadiplosis—repeating one line's final word at the start of the next—emphasizes the planes' motion but also conveys the urgent significance of these movements to the audience.

  Academic text (2016)

• Anadiplosis: the repetition of the last word or words of one line or clause at the beginning of the next:

  Academic text (1999)

• Since, like other devices of repetition, anadiplosis can express emotion.

  Academic text (1999)

• But alongside this strictly repetitive anadiplosis, there are some that vary the pattern.

  Fiction book (1996)

• So anadiplosis is a flexible tool for Moulsworth to provide crisp syntactical links.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Here, the anadiplosis acts as a syntactically connective unit, which also gives added prominence to the word thus repeated.

  Fiction book (1996)

• After that, I examine effects of pairing: anadiplosis, hendiadys, antithesis, and conclude with tricolon.

  Fiction book (1996)

• "Among the devices Steggle considers are antimetabole, anadiplosis, hendiadys, antithesis, and tricolon.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Close relatives of anadiplosis include epizeuxis, palilogia, duplicatio (and similar cognates), and ploce.

  Fiction book (1996)

• "All lovely, loving all" (1.47), for instance, fulfills the syntactical place of an anadiplosis (together with a nice chiastic structure) but uses the variation between the two words to make a distinction of meaning.

  Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

R

reduplication

vsanadiplosis

• Literature

9.9

Repeating the last words of one sentence or line at the start of the next to add emphasis

is the general word for the same repetition, not only poetic

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology