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Anadiplosis

//ˌænədəˈploʊsɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. countable, rhetoric, uncountable

    "Anadiplosis ends the former line With what the next does for its first design."

  2. 2
    repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin anadiplōsis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀναδίπλωσις (anadíplōsis).

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