| 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 |