Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Week 4 - Module 8 Anadiplosisffs
Week 4 - Module 8 Anadiplosisffs
Anadiplosis
MODULE 8: Anadiplosis
Anadiplosis
It is the repetition of the last word (or phrase) from the previous line, clause, or sentence
at the beginning of the next. The word anadiplosis comes from the Greek for “a
doubling” or “folding up.” The definition of anadiplosis thus comes from this sense of
repeating or doubling a term to make it more significant.
“They call for you: The general who became a slave; the slave who became
a gladiator; the gladiator who defied an Emperor. Striking story.” —
Commodus, Gladiator (2000 film)
“Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” —
Yoda, Star Wars
"Once philosophy you you change your philosophy, change your thought
pattern. Once you change thought pattern you change your pattern, your
Purposive Communication 2/Eulogy and Figure of Speech Part 1
Anadiplosis
attitude. Once you change your attitude, it then you changes your behavior
pattern and go on into some action." —Malcom X
This is an example of anadiplosis from William Shakespeare’s historical play Richard II.
King Richard II, in this excerpt, explains how fear leads to hate, which leads to danger
and death. This is one of the anadiplosis examples in which Shakespeare shows the
development from one term to another through a chain of events.
Walt Whitman uses many different examples of repetition in his masterpiece, “Song of
Myself.” In this short excerpt, Whitman contrasts what he does not give, i.e., “lectures or
a little charity” with what he does give, i.e., himself. This anadiplosis example shows the
narrator’s true character.
one usage to the next. Authors may also use anadiplosis examples to use a term and
then specify its multiple meanings, or clarify the one key meaning.
Source:
Literary Devices. (2017). Anadiplosis. Date Retrieved October 2, 2019 from
http://www.literarydevices.com/anadiplosis/