Anadiplosis

It’s a type of repetition. From Greek “to double.”1

Examples include:

  • “Tribulation worketh patience, and patience, experience, and experience, hope, and hope maketh man not ashamed.” —St. Paul2
  • “Suffering breeds character; character breeds faith; in the end faith will not disappoint.” —Jesse Jackson3
  • “For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime.” —Milton4

Mark Forsyth says, “Anadiplosis gives the illusion of logic.”5

  1. Anadiplosis Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster ↩

  2. The Elements of Eloquence pg. 50 ↩

  3. The Elements of Eloquence pg. 51 ↩

  4. The Elements of Eloquence pg. 53 ↩

  5. The Elements of Eloquence pg. 52 ↩

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Anadiplosis
Anadiplosis It’s a type of repetition. From Greek “to double.”1 Anadiplosis Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster ↩
Different types of repetition
Different types of repetition [[Epistrophe]] [[Anaphora]] [[Epizeuxis]] [[Anadiplosis]] [[Polyptoton]]