epanadiplosis

Figure Name epanadiplosis
Source Bullinger (1898) ("epanadiplosis; or, encircling")
Earliest Source
Synonyms encircling
Etymology Ep-an-a-di-plo-s i s Gr. from epi "upon," ana "again," and diplous "a doubling"
Type Scheme
Linguistic Domain Phonological
Syntactic
Definition

1. The Repetition of the same Word or Words at the beginning and end of a Sentence... It means [from the etymology-see above] "a doubling upon again," and the Figure is so called because the same word is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence.

Example

1. "The tables were the word of God, and the writing the writing of God, graven upon the tables." -Ex. 32:16
.......
"And the persons (Hebrew, souls) were sixteen thousand: of which the LORD'S tribute was thirty-and-two persons (Hebrew, souls)." -Num. 31:40 (Bullinger, 265)

Kind Of Repetition
Symmetry
Series
Addition
Part Of
Related Figures epistrophe, epiphoza
Notes
Confidence Unconfident
Last Editor Ioanna Malton
Confidence Unconfident
Editorial Notes
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