Results for anadiplosis
On this page:
 
Dictionary:

anadiplosis

  (ăn'ə-də-plō'sĭs) pronunciation
n., pl. -ses (-sēz).

Rhetorical repetition at the beginning of a phrase of the word or words with which the previous phrase ended; for example, He is a man of loyalty—loyalty always firm.

[Late Latin anadiplōsis, from Greek, from anadiploun, to redouble : ana-, ana- + diploun, to double (from diplous, double).]


 
 
Literary Dictionary: anadiplosis

anadiplosis [an‐ă‐di‐ploh‐sis] (plural ‐oses), a rhetorical figure of repetition in which a word or phrase appears both at the end of one clause, sentence, or stanza, and at the beginning of the next, thus linking the two units, as in the final line of Shakespeare's 36th sonnet:

As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
See also climax.

 
Obscure Words: anadiplosis


the repetition of a prominent (usu. last) word in one phrase at the beginning of the next, often with extended or altered meaning.
 
WordNet: anadiplosis
Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next
  Synonym: reduplication


 
Wikipedia: anadiplosis

Anadiplosis is a rhetorical figure of speech that means to "double back" and repeat a word or phrase that appears at the end of a sentence or clause at the beginning of the next sentence or clause. More generally, it refers to rhetorical repetition for emphasis.

Examples

  • "The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, where burning Sappho loved and sung" — Byron
  • "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

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.

See also

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, p. 673. ISBN 0-674-36250-0. 

External links


 
 

Join the WikiAnswers Q&A community. Post a question or answer questions about "anadiplosis" at WikiAnswers.

 

Copyrights:

Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2007. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Literary Dictionary. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Copyright © Chris Baldick 2001, 2004. All rights reserved.  Read more
Obscure Words. © 2008 by Michael A. Fischer http://home.comcast.net/~wwftd Read more
WordNet. WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.  Read more
Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Anadiplosis" Read more

Search for answers directly from your browser with the FREE Answers.com Toolbar!  
Click here to download now. 

Get Answers your way! Check out all our free tools and products.

On this page:   E-mail   print Print  Link  

 

Keep Reading

Mentioned In: