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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In rhetoric, repetition or resumption; especially, a figure by which the same word or phrase is repeated after one or more intervening words, or on returning to the same subject after a digression. An example of epanalepsis is found in 1 Cor. xi.: “(v. 18) When ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you. … (v. 20) When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.”

Wiktionary

  1. n. rhetoric The repetition of the same word or clause after intervening matter.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Rhet.) A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. repetition after intervening words

Etymologies

  1. Ancient Greek to take up. (Wiktionary)

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  • “Beginning and ending in 'fear' (an effect also known as epanalepsis), the passage plays with 'dead' and 'live', 'hope' and 'fear' in a way that is at once witty and heartbreaking, since we know that the boys 'lives will soon end.”

    Shakespeare

  • “= Professor R.J. Tarrant points out the similar epanalepsis at Hor _Ep_ I xi 9 '_oblitusque_ meorum, _obliuiscendus_ et illis'.”

    The Last Poems of Ovid

  • “Up to line 48 the author sets in opposition the types of the Old Testament and the realities of the New, a theme very favourable to epanalepsis.”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

  • “Perhaps a better example of epanalepsis would be "Redundancy Department of Redundancy" because his title was meant to emphasize the redundancy.”

    Above the Law

  • “It could also be argued that you used epanalepsis, though I doubt that was your intention.”

    Above the Law

  • “If he didn't intend to emphasize dept, then it wouldn't be epanalepsis, would it?”

    Above the Law

  • “On page 171 epanalepsis is given a different pronunciation and literal meaning than on page 51.”

    Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1

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