epanalepsis

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  • noun In rhetoric, repetition or resumption; especially, a figure by which the same word or phrase is repeated after one or more intervening words, or on returning to the same subject after a digression.

Examples

  • Beginning and ending in 'fear' (an effect also known as epanalepsis), the passage plays with 'dead' and 'live', 'hope' and 'fear' in a way that is at once witty and heartbreaking, since we know that the boys 'lives will soon end'.

    Shakespeare

  • Perhaps a better example of epanalepsis would be "Redundancy Department of Redundancy" because his title was meant to emphasize the redundancy.

    Above the Law

Note

The word 'epanalepsis' comes from a Greek word meaning "to take up".