Epiploke
The epiploke ( ancient Greek έπιπλοκή epiploké , German 'connection, interweaving' ) is a multiple anadiplosis in rhetoric , whereby anadiplosis denotes the repetition of words at the end of a sentence at the beginning of the following sentence.
The epiploke thus belongs to the rhetorical figures from the group of word repetitions , which, like other rhetorical figures, should increase the listener's attention (see climax ) and emphasize the meaning of what is said.
Example:
- Oh, the woman was beautiful, she was beautiful and pure, she was pure and yet full of courage, courage should also be in her.
In (ancient) verse theory , epiploke describes the combination of related metra in a rhythmic unit. In particular, it describes the ambivalence that arises from the fact that the interpretation of a sequence of verse elements as a sequence of meters is not clearly determined. So can the metric scheme
- ... x — ◡ — x — ◡ — x ...
both as a sequence of trochaic meters
- ... xˌ — ◡ˌ — xˌ — ◡ˌ — x ...
as well as a sequence of iambic meters
- ... x — ˌ◡ — ˌx — ˌ◡ — ˌx ...
be interpreted depending on where the border of the foot of the foot is assumed. Similar ambivalences arise with Ionic - Chorjambic (ie ◡◡—— or —◡◡—) or Bacchic - Cretan (ie ◡—— or —◡—) sequences.
literature
- Thomas Cole: Epiploke. Rhythmic continuity and poetic structure in Greek lyric. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1988, ISBN 0-674-25822-3 .
- Thomas Cole: Epiploke. In: Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman et al. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2012, ISBN 978-0-691-13334-8 , pp. 450-450 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- Max Consbruch (Ed.): Hephaestionis Enchiridion. Teubner, Leipzig 1906, pp. 110 f., 120 f., 127.
- Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-47902-8 , p. 64.
- Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 223.