Epanalepsis

The epanalepsis ( Greek  ἐπανάληψις epanalepsis : resumption) is a rhetorical figure from the group of word repetitions , in which a word or a group of words at the beginning of a sentence is repeated immediately or at a distance. Due to this somewhat broad definition, there is often an overlap with other rhetorical terms. Example:

"And breathed long and breathed deeply"

- Friedrich Schiller : The diver

In direct succession one speaks of Geminatio ( Latin "doubling").

See also:

• Epanadiplosis

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. 217.