Dictionary

anadiplosis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌænədəˈploʊsɪs/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin anadiplōsis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀναδίπλωσις (anadíplōsis).

Meanings

1. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) A figure of speech in which a word or phrase used at the end of a clause or expression is repeated near the beginning of the next clause or expression.
   • Anadiplosis ends the former line With what the next does for its first design. 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Anadiplosis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 80:

Forms

Relateds

epanastrophe · epanadiplosis

Translations (21)

cmn 頂針 /顶针 (a rhetorical device) · cmn 蟬聯法 /蝉联法 (a rhetorical device) · hu anadiplózis (a rhetorical device) · fi anadiploosi (a rhetorical device) · es anadiplosis (a rhetorical device) · cmn 反覆法 (a rhetorical device) · la anadiplōsis (a rhetorical device) · ca anadiplosi (a rhetorical device) · ja 前辞反復 (a rhetorical device) · pl anadiploza (a rhetorical device) · pt anadiplose (a rhetorical device) · cmn 頂真 /顶真 (a rhetorical device) · it anadiplosi (a rhetorical device) · hu epanasztrofa (a rhetorical device) · hu kettőzés (a rhetorical device) · hu reduplikáció (a rhetorical device) · cmn 聯珠法 /联珠法 (a rhetorical device) · tl ugnay-ulit (a rhetorical device) · sh anadiplóza (a rhetorical device) · de Anadiplose (a rhetorical device) · fr anadiplose (a rhetorical device)