Symploke
The symploke or complexio ( Greek συμπλοκή 'braid' and Latin complexio 'entanglement'), more rarely called Completio (Latin completio 'completion'), is a rhetorical figure from the group of word repetitions (pallilogies) and expansion figures. A symploke connects an anaphor and an epipher : The same words are repeated at the beginning and at the end of parallel sentences or verses , often in classical rhetoric also starting with the same question pronoun that receives the same answer.
Examples
“What is the fool's greatest good? Money!
What attracts even the wise? Money!"
"The gods, the infinite, give everything to
your darlings,
all joys, the infinite,
all pains, the infinite, completely."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : The gods give everything
literature
- Christina Hartmann: Symploke. In: Gert Ueding (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of rhetoric . Volume 9: St – Z. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-484-68109-5 , Sp. 331–333.
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich F. Plett : Introduction to rhetorical text analysis. 9th, updated and expanded edition. Buske, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-87548-246-8 , p. 45.