anadiplosis

Anadiplosis (from the Greek: ἀναδίπλωσις, anadíplōsis, "a doubling, folding up") is the repetition of the last word of a preceding clause. The word is used at the end of a sentence and then used again at the beginning of the next sentence.

Examples

• "For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas and hath not left his peer. —John Milton, Lycidas
• "Queeg: 'Aboard my ship, excellent performance is standard. Standard performance is sub-standard. Sub-standard performance is not permitted to exist.'" —Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny.
• " Having power makes [totalitarian leadership] isolated; isolation breeds insecurity; insecurity breeds suspicion and fear; suspicion and fear breed violence." —Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Permanent Purge: Politics in Soviet Totalitarianism
• "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." —Yoda, Star Wars
• "The frog was a prince / The prince was a brick / The brick was an egg / The egg was a bird" —Supper's Ready by Genesis
• "Strength through unity, unity through faith." —Chancellor Adam Sutler, V for Vendetta
• "Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music and music is the best." — Frank Zappa
• "We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us." —Romans 5:3-5
• "They call for you: The general who became a slave; the slave who became a gladiator; the gladiator who defied an Emperor. Striking story." —Commodus, Gladiator
• "The whispers turn to shouting, the shouting turns to tears. Your tears turns into laughter, and it takes away our fears." -"A Twist In My Story" by Secondhand Serenade

Other uses

The word was also used in archaic medicine, for a reduplication of the fits, or paroxysms of fevers, in which sense, some writers also called it epanadiplosis or epanalepsis.

See also

• Epanalepsis
• Figure of speech

References

• This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.
• Corbett, Edward P.J. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Oxford University Press, New York, 1971.
• Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920). Greek Grammar. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 673. ISBN 0-674-36250-0. 

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