anadiplosis
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin anadiplōsis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀναδίπλωσις (anadíplōsis).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
anadiplosis (countable and uncountable, plural anadiploses)
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- (rhetoric) 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.
Usage notes[edit]
Frequently combined with (but distinct from) climax, so that each step of the anadiplosis typically increases in magnitude or rhetorical force, with the effect of making the last term more powerful by comparison.
Translations[edit]
a rhetorical device
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin anadiplōsis, from Ancient Greek ἀναδίπλωσις (anadíplōsis).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
anadiplosis f (plural anadiplosis)
Further reading[edit]
- “anadiplosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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