Note: Can you spot the anaphora and the anadiplosis?. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetorical Figures in Sound: Scesis Onomaton] Reference
For instance, here's an anadiplosis from Shakespeare's Richard II. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
In an anadiplosis one repeats a word near the end of one phrase or clause at the beginning of the next. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
This figure is known to the rhetoricians as anadiplosis, or the beginning of a phrase with the final words of the previous phrase; it is also ploce, the insistent repetition of a word within the same line or phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
In so doing, I have left out anadiplosis, the ` use of the last word in one clause to begin another. '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
The sudden introduction of the interrogative clause in this line is an example of the figure of speech called anadiplosis. From Wordnik.com. [Milton's Comus] Reference
N. - an abrupt shift in midsentence in syntax to another construction adj. - jovial, festive and amatory anadiplosis. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Note: Compare with anadiplosis. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetorical Figures in Sound: Conduplicatio] Reference
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