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anadiplosis

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Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin anadiplōsis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀναδίπλωσις (anadíplōsis).

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anadiplosis (countable and uncountable, plural anadiploses)

Examples
  • "Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope."
    (Romans 5:3-4)
  • Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
    (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace)
  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which a word or phrase used at the end of a clause or expression is repeated near the beginning of the next clause or expression.
    • 1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 80:
      Anadiplosis ends the former line
      With what the next does for its first design.

Usage notes edit

Frequently combined with (but distinct from) climax, so that each step of the anadiplosis typically increases in magnitude or rhetorical force, with the effect of making the last term more powerful by comparison.

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin anadiplōsis, from Ancient Greek ἀναδίπλωσις (anadíplōsis).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /anadiˈplosis/ [a.na.ð̞iˈplo.sis]
  • Rhymes: -osis
  • Syllabification: a‧na‧di‧plo‧sis

Noun edit

anadiplosis f (plural anadiplosis)

  1. (rhetoric) anadiplosis

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