Lecture
Anadiplosis (from Ancient Greek ἀναδίπλωσις «doubling») — the repetition of one or several words such that the last word or phrase of the first part of an utterance is repeated at the beginning of the next part. In this way the two parts are linked into a single whole. In modern versification terminology, this is the repetition of the end of a line at the beginning of the following one. The device has been known since ancient times.
It occurs repeatedly in the biblical psalms:
…from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the LORD…— Ps. 121:1—2
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem —
Jerusalem, built as a city that is bound firmly together…— Ps. 122:2—3
…the stream would have gone over our soul;
the raging waters would have gone over our soul.— Ps. 124:4—5
My soul waiteth for the LORD more than they that watch for the morning, more than they that watch for the morning.
Let Israel hope…— Ps. 130:6—7
Examples of anadiplosis in Russian folk poetry:
Let us, lads, sit down to write a petition,
a petition to write, and send it off to Moscow,
to Moscow to send it, into the tsar's own hands to give.
On the cross there sits a free little bird,
a free little bird, a cuckoo of the grove,
it sits up high, it looks out far,
it looks out far, beyond the blue sea.
He kissed her white hands,
her white hands, her slender fingers,
her slender fingers in rings of gold.
An example of anadiplosis in Russian literary poetry:
I climbed the tower, and the steps trembled,
And the steps trembled beneath my feet.— K. Balmont
Compressing an anadiplosis yields an initial rhyme.
| Figures of Speech | |
|---|---|
| Figures |
Adynaton • Allusion • Amplification • Anadiplosis • Anacoluthon • Anaphora • Antithesis • Antitheton • Apocope • Apostrophe • Attraction • Asyndeton • Hyperbaton •Homoeoteleuton • Gradation (Climax, Anticlimax) • Distinctio • Zeugma • Isocolon • Nominative of theme • Inversion • Correctio • Mesarchia •Polyptoton • Polysyndeton • Oxymoron • Parallelism • Paronomasia • Parcellation • Periphrasis • Pleonasm • Prolepsis • Retardation •Rhetorical question • Rhetorical exclamation • Rhetorical address • Symploce • Solecism • Tautology • Exact repetition • Aposiopesis • Chiasmus • Exergasia •Ellipsis • Emphasis • Epiphora |
| Tropes |
Allegory • Antiphrasis • Asteism • Antonomasia • Hyperbole • Dysphemism • Irony • Pun • Catachresis • Litotes • Meiosis • Metaphor • Metonymy • Personification •Pathos • Periphrasis • Sarcasm • Synecdoche • Simile • Euphemism • Epithet |
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