| Figure Name | mesodiplosis |
| Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Bullinger (1898) ("mesodiplosis; or, middle repetition") |
| Earliest Source | None |
| Synonyms | mesophonia, middle repetition |
| Etymology | Gr. mesos "middle" and diplosis "a doubling" |
| Type | Scheme |
| Linguistic Domain |
Lexicographic Syntactic |
| Definition |
1. Repetition of the same word or words in the middle of successive sentences. 2. The Repetition of the same Word or Words in the middle of successive Sentences... the same word or words repeated in the middle and at the end of successive sentences. (Bullinger, 280) |
| Example |
1. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; 2. "We are troubled in every side, yet not detressed; We are perplixed, but not in despair: Persecuted, but not forsaken; Cast down, but not destroyed." -2 Cor. 4:8,9. (Bullinger, 280) |
| Kind Of | Repetition Addition |
| Part Of | |
| Related Figures | Figures of Repetition, mesoteleuton, mesarchia |
| Notes | |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Last Editor | Ioanna Malton |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Editorial Notes | |
| Reviewed | No |