Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter.
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- noun rhetoric The
repetition of the sameword orclause afterintervening matter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun repetition after intervening words
Etymologies
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Examples
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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 Bevington, David 2002
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= Professor R.J. Tarrant points out the similar epanalepsis at Hor _Ep_ I xi 9 '_oblitusque_ meorum, _obliuiscendus_ et illis'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Up to line 48 the author sets in opposition the types of the Old Testament and the realities of the New, a theme very favourable to epanalepsis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Perhaps a better example of epanalepsis would be "Redundancy Department of Redundancy" because his title was meant to emphasize the redundancy.
Above the Law 2010
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It could also be argued that you used epanalepsis, though I doubt that was your intention.
Above the Law 2010
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If he didn't intend to emphasize dept, then it wouldn't be epanalepsis, would it?
Above the Law 2010
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On page 171 epanalepsis is given a different pronunciation and literal meaning than on page 51.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word epanalepsis
JM and epanalepsis are JM and epanalepsis over and over.
March 29, 2011
qms commented on the word epanalepsis
Repeat till your poem’s replete
With hints of the joys indiscreet
When epanalepsis
Shall marry prolepsis
And endlessly loop and repeat.
December 13, 2017