coenotes

Figure Name coenotes
Source Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Bullinger (1898) ("coenotes; or, combined repetition")
Earliest Source None
Synonyms combined repetition, complexio
Etymology Gr. kointotees "sharing in common"
Type Scheme
Linguistic Domain Syntactic
Definition

1. Repetition of two different phrases: one at the beginning and the other at the end of successive paragraphs.

Note: Composed of anaphora and epistrophe, coenotes is simply a more specific kind of symploce (the repetition of phrases, not merely words). (Silva Rhetoricae)

2. The Repetition of two different Phrases: one at the Beginning and the Other at the End of successive Paragraphs... [see Etymology] The figure is so called when two separate phrases are repeated, one at the beginning and the other at the end of successive sentences or paragraphs. When only the words are thus repeated, the figure is called Symploce, which is repeated Epanadiplosis. It is a combination of Anaphora and Epistrophe; but affecting phrases rather than single words. (Bullinger, 364)

Example

1. O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever
O give thanks to the Lord of Lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.
— Psalm 136:1-3 (qtd. in Silva Rhetoricae)

2. Ps. 118:8,9.-
"It is better to trust in the LORD
than to put confidence in man:
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes."
See also verses 15, 16.-
"The right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly,
The right hand of the LORD is exalted:
The right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly."
In verses 10-12 there aare three figures combined: There is Anaphora, in the repetition of "They compassed me" at the beginning of several clauses; Epistrophe, in the repetition of "In the name of the LORD I will destroy them" at the end; and in verse 11 we have Epizeuxis in "they compassed me" being repeated in immediate succession. (Bullinger, 365)

Kind Of Repetition
Series
Addition
Part Of
Related Figures symploce, anaphora, epistrophe
Notes
Confidence Unconfident
Last Editor Ioanna Malton
Confidence Unconfident
Editorial Notes
Reviewed No