epanadiplosis

English

Examples
"Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice." "Blow winds and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow!"

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin epanadiplōsis, from Ancient Greek ἐπαναδίπλωσις (epanadíplōsis, “doubling, folding”).

Noun

epanadiplosis (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence.

Synonyms

• epanalepsis

Translations

a figure of speech by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence

• French: épanadiplose (fr) f

See also

• anadiplosis
• epanastrophe

 

Spanish

Noun

epanadiplosis f (uncountable)

1. epanadiplosis

   Synonym: epanalepsis

Further reading

• “epanadiplosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014