anadiplosis
/ˌænədəˈploʊsɪs/
anadiplosis means A figure of speech in which a word or phrase used at the end of a clause or expression is repeated near the beginning of the next clause or expression. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
anadiplosis is pronounced /ˌænədəˈploʊsɪs/.
Why “anadiplosis” is a great word
ANADIPLOSIS — [Noun] A rhetorical figure in which the last word or phrase of a clause or sentence is repeated at the beginning of the next. From Latin anadiplōsis, from Ancient Greek ἀναδίπλωσις (anadíplōsis, "doubling back, reduplication"), from ἀνα- (ana-, "back, again") and διπλόω (diplóō, "to double"). First attested in English use in the 1580s. Unlike epistrophe, which builds a refrain by repeating words at the ends of clauses, or conduplicatio, which repeats words for emphasis anywhere within a sentence, anadiplosis creates a forward-thrusting linkage, each conclusion becoming a new premise. It is the climber finding a new handhold in the ledge just secured, the echo in a canyon becoming the source of the next call, or the final breath of one line becoming the first inhalation of the next—a small syntactic recursion that builds an inescapable momentum, proving every ending contains the germ of a beginning.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin anadiplōsis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀναδίπλωσις (anadíplōsis).
noun
- A figure of speech in which a word or phrase used at the end of a clause or expression is repeated near the beginning of the next clause or expression.“Anadiplosis ends the former line
With what the next does for its first design.”