The epanalepsis is a figure of speech defined by the repetition of the initial word or words of a clause or sentence at the end. A figure of speech, sometimes In Grammar, a clause is a word or group of words that consists of a subject and a predicate, although in some Languages and some types of The beginning and the end are the two positions of stronger emphasis in a sentence; so, by having the same phrase in both places, the speaker calls special attention to it. Nested double-epanalepses form another figure of speech, which is called a chiasmus. In Rhetoric, chiasmus is the Figure of speech in which two or more Clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a
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Examples
- The king is dead, long live the king. The King is dead Long live the King! (French Le Roi est mort vive le Roi ! is a traditional proclamation made following the Accession of a new Monarch in various
- Severe to his servants, to his children severe.
- What is Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?[1]
- I got my mind on my money, and my money on my mind
Etymology
From the Greek epanálépsis, literally meaning resumption, taking up again. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly [2]
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Shakespeare, William (1602). In Rhetoric, an anaphora (ἀναφορά "carrying back" is emphasizing words by repeating them at the beginnings of neighboring clauses Examples "For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime Young Lycidas and hath not left his peer A figure of speech, sometimes William Shakespeare ( baptised Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Hamlet is a Tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601
- ^ Epanalepsis - Definitions from Dictionary.com
References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920). Greek Grammar. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, p. 673. ISBN 0-674-36250-0.
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