Anadiplosis
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Anadiplosis is a rhetorical figure of speech that means to "double back" and repeat a word or phrase that appears at the end of sentence or clause at the beginning of the next sentence or clause.
Examples
- Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business. —Francis Bacon
- "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
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.References
- Corbett, Edward P.J. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Oxford University Press, New York, 1971.
- This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.
See also
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