Post Tagged with: "Repetition"

• January 16, 2021 / Posts

  Epibole: Repetition at irregular intervals.

  Epibole (Overlaid Repetition) (page 346) https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029277047#page/n401/mode/2up “E-pi’-bo-lee is from ἐπιβάλλειν (epiballein), to cast upon. The figure is so named, because the same sentence or phrase is cast upon or laid upon (like layers or courses of bricks) several successive paragraphs. It thus differs from Anaphora (q.v.) in that it consists […]

   
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• January 9, 2021 / Posts

  Anaphora

  https://archive.org/details/cu31924029277047/page/n253/mode/2up Page 199 ” A~naph’-o-ra, from two Greek words, ἀνά (ana), again, and φέρω (pherō), to bring or carry. It means a carrying back, reference, or repeating over again. This figure is so-called because it is the repeating of the same word at the beginning of successive clauses: thus adding […]

   
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