Anadiplosis

The anadiplosis ( Greek  ἀναδίπλωσις anadíplōsis "repetition", "doubling") or reduplicatio (Latin) is a rhetorical figure from the group of word repetitions and denotes the repetition of the last word or the last group of words of a sentence (or verse) at the beginning of the following Verse or sentence.

Examples:

"Ha! Then how do I mock you !
Sneer? God keep me! "

- Schiller : To Minna

" Wind and waves play with the ship ,
wind and waves do not play with his heart."

- Goethe : Seafaring

Similar figures

Other rhetorical figures with word repetition are anaphora , Epanadiplose , epanalepsis , Epanastrophe , Epipher , Epiploke , Geminatio , Kyklos , symploce and Variatio .

literature

• Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. Special edition of the 8th, improved and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 23 f.

Web links

• Tropics and Figures. Teaching materials for an introduction to the study of Latin Philology . Script on the website of Kiel University (PDF; 69.3 kB)