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Definition of Anadiplosis
1. Noun. Repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next.
Definition of Anadiplosis
1. n. 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; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."
Definition of Anadiplosis
1. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anadiplosis
1. [n -PLOSES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anadiplosis
Literary usage of Anadiplosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"anadiplosis, from the Greek dvd, and diw/Loof , double. is the use of the same
word or words in the termination of one clause of a sentence and at the ..."
2. Tropes and Figures in Anglo-Saxon Prose by James Waddell Tupper (1897)
"At the End of the Preceding and Beginning of the Following Sentence. The name of
this figure is anadiplosis. It is defined in De Mille's ..."
3. Stilistik, Rhetorik, Poetik in Bezug auf die biblische Litteratur komparativisch by Eduard König (1900)
"(su), und echte anadiplosis findet sich wieder in 'ai ... und anadiplosis erwähnt
worden sind, beobachtet man 35 folgende ..."
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