mesoteleuton

Figure Name mesoteleuton
Source Bullinger (1898) ("mesoteleuton; or, middle and end repetition")
Earliest Source
Synonyms middle and end repetition
Etymology Gr. mesos "middle" and teleutee a "finish" or "end"
Type Scheme
Linguistic Domain Lexicographic
Syntactic
Definition

1. The Repetition of the same Word or Words in the middle and at the end of successive Sentences. (Bullinger, 280)

Example

1. "Say ye not a confederacy to all them to whom this people shall say a confederacy." -Isa. 8:12 There is a figure also of Polyptoton in "say ye" and "shall say." (Bullinger, 280)

Kind Of Repetition
Addition
Part Of
Related Figures mesarchia, mesodiplosis
Notes
Confidence Unconfident
Last Editor Ioanna Malton
Confidence Unconfident
Editorial Notes
Reviewed No