anadiplosis

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And some of the tricks which the boy-poet has caught are interesting and abode with him, such as the anadiplosis Yes, there are stories registered on high Yes, there are stains Time's fingers cannot blot in which kind he was to produce some years later the matchless Still nursing the unconquerable hope Still clutching the inviolable shade of the Scholar-Gipsy_.

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  1. noun 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.

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  • And some of the tricks which the boy-poet has caught are interesting and abode with him, such as the anadiplosis Yes, there are stories registered on high Yes, there are stains Time's fingers cannot blot in which kind he was to produce some years later the matchless Still nursing the unconquerable hope Still clutching the inviolable shade of the Scholar-Gipsy . —  Matthew Arnold
  • And some of the tricks which the boy-poet has caught are interesting and abode with him, such as the anadiplosis Yes, there are stories registered on high Yes, there are stains Time's fingers cannot blot in which kind he was to produce some years later the matchless Still nursing the unconquerable hope Still clutching the inviolable shade of the Scholar-Gipsy_. —  Matthew Arnold
  • n. - an abrupt shift in midsentence in syntax to another construction adj. - jovial, festive and amatory anadiplosis —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • The sudden introduction of the interrogative clause in this line is an example of the figure of speech called anadiplosis. —  Milton's Comus
 

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  1. Late Latin anadiplōsis, from Greek, from anadiploun, to redouble : ana-, ana- + diploun, to double (from diplous, double; see dwo- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Latin, from Greek ἀναδίπλωσις, repetition, from ἀναδιπλοῦν, make double (used only in passive), from ἀνά, again, + διπλοῦν, make double, from διπλόος, double: see diploë and diploma.
 

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