Figure Name | anadiplosis |
Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Peacham (1593); Fraunce (1588) ("anadiplosis," "climax"); Puttenham (1589) ("anadiplosis," "the redouble"); Day 1599; Hoskins 1599; JG Smith (1665) ("anadiplosis"); Ad Herennium ("reduplication") (324); Macbeth (1876); Holmes (1806) ("anadiplosis"); De Mille (1882); Blount (1653) 6; Bullinger (1898) ("anadiplosis; or, like sentence endings and beginnings"); Norwood (1742) ("anadiplosis"); Vickers (1989) ("Anadiplosis (or reduplicatio)") |
Earliest Source | None |
Synonyms | reduplicatio, the redouble, like sentence endings and beginnings |
Etymology | from Gk. ana "again" and diploun "to double" or diplous "double" |
Type | Scheme |
Linguistic Domain |
Syntactic |
Definition |
1. The repetition of the last word (or phrase) from the previous line, clause, or sentence at the beginning of the next. Often combined with climax. (Silva Rhetoricae) 2. Anadiplosis is a figure by which the lat word of the first clause is the beginning of the second. (Peacham) 3. Redoubling: a figure whereby the last word, or sound of the first clause, is repeated in the beginning of the next.; Anadiplosis, Reduplicatio, Reduplication, or redoubling, derived from, re, again, et , (diploo) duplico to double. A figure whereby the last word or sound of the first clause is repeated in the beginning of the next. (JG Smith) 4. Reduplication is the repetition of one or 5. Anadiplosis is the use of the same word at the end of one clause and at the beginning of another, as: 6. Anadiplosis ends the former line, With what the next does for its first design. (Holmes) 7. 180. ANADIPLOSIS. 8. "a repetition in the end of a former sentence, and beginning of the next" (Blount) 9. The Repetition of the same Word or Words at the end of one Sentence and at the beginning of another... The words so repeated are thus emphasized as being the most important words in the sentence, which we are to mark and consider in translation and exposition. (Bullinger, 269) 10. ANADlPLOSIS. Anadiplosis, derived from the Greek (ana, re, and diploo,) duplico. This Figure pronounceth the same word in different sentences: when the last word of the preceding proposition is repeated in the beginning of the following. (Norwood, 65) 11. Anadiplosis (or reduplicatio), where the last word(s) of one clause or sentence become(s) the first of the one following. (Vickers 492) |
Example |
1. The love of wicked men converts to fear, 1. The following shows anadiplosis of a phrase: 2. Now followeth faire Assur, Assur trusting to his steede. Another: With death, death must be recompenced. On mischief, mischief must be heapt. (Virgill qtd. in Peacham) 2. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land that floweth with milke and honie. (Moses in Deut.8 qtd. in Peacham) 2. This is an obstinate people, and dissembling children, children that refuse to heare the voyce of the Lord. (Esay in Esa.30 qtd. in Peacham) 2. If we live, we live unto the Lord, if we die, we die unto the Lord. (Paule qtd. in Peacham) 4. "You are promoting riots, Gaius Gracchus, yes, civil and internal riots." (Ad Herennium) 4. "You were not moved when his mother embraced your knees ? You Mere not moved ? " (Ad Herennium) 4. embraced your knees ? You Mere not moved ? " * 3. Prize wisdom, wisdom is a jewel too precious to be slighted. (JG Smith) 6. Prize Wisdom; Wisdom is a precious Jewel. (Holmes) 7. "Three fishers when sailing out into the west, 7. "Lycidas is dead-dead ere his prime." -MILTON (De Mille) 8. "you fear left you should offend; offend, O how know you that you should offend? Because he doth deny, deny? Now in earnest I could laugh, dye." (Blount) 9. "Then said they among the heathen, 10. Rom. 14. 8. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: and therefore in either state, it is our business to preserve in our minds a lively sense of God's providence; and refer ourselves to his care and protection of our souls and bodies; since whether we live or die, we are the 11. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd. --Shakespeare, "Sonnet 29" (Vickers 492) |
Kind Of | Repetition Symmetry Addition |
Part Of | |
Related Figures | climax, figures of repetition |
Notes | The repeated word/clause is symmetrical with the form/place of the first word/clause. Peacham claims that this figure might also be called "the Rhetoricall Eccho" because it "carrieth the resemblance of a rebounded voyce, or iterated sound." |
Confidence | Unconfident |
Last Editor | Daniel Etigson |
Confidence | Unconfident |
Editorial Notes | |
Reviewed | No |