Word repetition
The word repetition is an easy and frequent rhetorical figure . Depending on which element (word or phrase) is repeated where in the syntactic or prosaic units (sentence, line) and how often, different types are distinguished:
- Anadiplosis
- The element at the end of a syntactic unit is repeated at the beginning of the next unit.
- AB C . C D E.
- Epiploke
- A multiple-ranked anadiplosis.
- AB C . C D E . E F G.
- Anaphor
- The element at the beginning of a unit also begins the following unit.
- A B C. A D E.
- Epanadiplosis
- The repetition of an element from the beginning of a larger unit (stanza, paragraph, entire work) at the end of that unit.
- A B, CD, E A .
- Epanalepsis
- An element is repeated with some space.
- A BC A D E.
- Epipher
- The element at the end of a unit is used repeatedly at the end in the following units (opposite of the anaphor).
- AB C . DE C .
- Geminatio
- The immediate duplication of an element.
- A BB C.
- Epizeuxis
- A Geminatio applied several times.
- A BBBB C.