Epiphora (rhetoric)
The Epiphora , also Epipher (from Greek ἐπιφορά epiphorá , addition, addition '), describes as a rhetorical (word) figure the single or multiple repetition of a word or a group of words at the end of successive sentences or verses .
The Epiphora is one of the simplest, oldest and most common rhetorical and poetic stylistic devices; it occurs particularly frequently in religious language, for example in the Bible . Today the term is also used in a generalized way in linguistics.
The counterpart to Epiphora is the anaphor ; closely related to both are Anadiplose and Kyklos .
example
- I'm fine My father is fine. The rest of my family are fine. Everyone is fine.
- You may not think of us as idiots , at least you make us idiots .
- I do not love the foreign land ; I almost hate the foreign land .
- But all pleasure wants eternity , wants deep, deep eternity ! ( The drunken song - Friedrich Nietzsche )
- And that only for you, forever and you, forever and you (Forever and you - Rio Reiser )