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Epanadiplosis

Device
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A rhetorical device where a word or phrase from the beginning of a line or clause is repeated at its end, creating circular emphasis and cohesion.

Detailed Definition
Epanadiplosis is a rhetorical figure where the same word begins and ends a clause, line, or sentence, creating a circular, emphatic structure; in poetry, it frames ideas with sonic and semantic symmetry, as in “Blood hath bought blood, and blows have answer’d blows,” reinforcing thematic closure or inevitability.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Never again, never again” in Tennyson’s “The Lotos-Eaters”; “Alone, alone, all, all alone” in Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; Maya Angelou: “Still I rise, still I rise”; Epanadiplosis creates circular emphasis in haiku: “Winter solitude— / in a world of one color / the sound of wind.”
Additional Notes
Repetition of word at beginning and end of clause. Rhetoric device creating circular emphasis. Example: "Rejoice in the Lord always: again I say, rejoice." Related: epanalepsis, anadiplosis.
Also Known As
Circular repetition frame repetition Épanadiplose
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