| 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 |
| Kind Of | Repetition Symmetry Series Addition |
| Part Of | |
| Related Figures | epistrophe, epiphoza |
| Notes | |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Last Editor | Ioanna Malton |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Editorial Notes | |
| Reviewed | No |