anadiplosis

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/ˌænədəˈploʊsɪs/

Definition of anadiplosis

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noun

(countable, rhetoric, uncountable)A figure of speech in which a word or phrase used at the end of a clause or expression is repeated near the beginning of the next clause or expression.

“Anadiplosis ends the former line With what the next does for its first design.”

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Learned borrowing from Latin anadiplōsis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀναδίπλωσις (anadíplōsis).

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