Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A figure in rhetoric and poetry, consisting in the repetition at the beginning of a line or clause of the last word or words preceding, as in the following examples:
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea.”
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rhetoric A
rhetorical device in which a word or phrase used at the end of a sentence or clause is repeated near the beginning of the next sentence or clause.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One discovers numerous examples in which De Luca uses such rhetorical devices as anadiplosis or the repetition of a word at the end of a clause or at the beginning of another; anaphora or the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses; or anastrophe which is the inversion of the usual word order within a sentence.
Mark Axelrod: The Day Before Happiness Mark Axelrod 2012
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One discovers numerous examples in which De Luca uses such rhetorical devices as anadiplosis or the repetition of a word at the end of a clause or at the beginning of another; anaphora or the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses; or anastrophe which is the inversion of the usual word order within a sentence.
Mark Axelrod: The Day Before Happiness Mark Axelrod 2012
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Note: Can you spot the anaphora and the anadiplosis?
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In an anadiplosis one repeats a word near the end of one phrase or clause at the beginning of the next.
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For instance, here's an anadiplosis from Shakespeare's Richard II:
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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In an anadiplosis one repeats a word near the end of one phrase or clause at the beginning of the next.
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For instance, here's an anadiplosis from Shakespeare's Richard II:
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This figure is known to the rhetoricians as anadiplosis, or the beginning of a phrase with the final words of the previous phrase; it is also ploce, the insistent repetition of a word within the same line or phrase.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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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_ --
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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The sudden introduction of the interrogative clause in this line is an example of the figure of speech called anadiplosis.
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
bilby commented on the word anadiplosis
"We're off to see the Wizard,
the wonderful Wizard of Oz."
- 'The Wizard of Oz'.
August 19, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word anadiplosis
JM aspires to anadiplosis, anadiplosis for its own sake.
May 26, 2010