epanalepsis

American  

[ep-uh-nuh-lep-sis] / ˌɛp ə nəˈlɛp sɪs /

noun

Rhetoric.

1. a repetition of a word or a phrase with intervening words setting off the repetition, sometimes occurring with a phrase used both at the beginning and end of a sentence, as in Only a fool would trust a stranger with his money; only a fool.

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epanalepsis British  

/ ɪˌpænəˈlɛpsɪs /

noun

1. rhetoric the repetition, after a more or less lengthy passage of subordinate or parenthetic text, of a word or clause that was used before

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Other Word Forms

• epanaleptic adjective

Etymology

Origin of epanalepsis

First recorded in 1575–85; from Greek epanálēpsis, literally, “taking up again, resumption,” equivalent to ep- ep- + ana- ana- + lêpsis “taking hold” ( lēp-, stem of lambánein “to take” + -sis -sis )

Example Sentences

Professor R. J. Tarrant points out the similar epanalepsis at Hor Ep I xi 9 'oblitusque meorum, obliuiscendus et illis'.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

They constitute the figure known as epanalepsis, in which “the same word or phrase is repeated after one or more intervening words.”

From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso)