anadiplosis

anadiplosis

English

Etymology

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

Noun

anadiplosis (countable and uncountable, plural anadiploses)

Examples
"Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope." (Romans 5:3-4) Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace)

1. (rhetoric) 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.
   • [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, OCLC 1062248511, page 80:

     Anadiplosis ends the former line
     With what the next does for its first design.]

Usage notes

Frequently combined with (but distinct from) climax, so that each step of the anadiplosis typically increases in magnitude or rhetorical force, with the effect of making the last term more powerful by comparison.

Translations

a rhetorical device

Catalan: anadiplosi f Chinese: Mandarin: 頂真／顶真 (dǐngzhēn), 頂針／顶针 (zh) (dǐngzhēn), 蟬聯法／蝉联法 (Chánliánfǎ), 聯珠法／联珠法 (Liánzhūfǎ), 反覆法 (Fǎnfùfǎ) Finnish: anadiploosi French: anadiplose (fr) f German: Anadiplose f Italian: anadiplosi (it) f Japanese: 前辞反復 (zenjihanfuku) Latin: anadiplōsis f Polish: anadiploza f Portuguese: anadiplose (pt) f Serbo-Croatian: anadiplóza (sh) f Spanish: anadiplosis f Tagalog: ugnay-ulit

See also

• epanadiplosis
• epanastrophe

References

• Silva Rhetoricae

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin anadiplōsis, from Ancient Greek ἀναδίπλωσις (anadíplōsis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anadiˈplosis/ [a.na.ð̞iˈplo.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: a‧na‧di‧plo‧sis

Noun

anadiplosis f (plural anadiplosis)

1. (rhetoric) anadiplosis

Further reading

• “anadiplosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014