Anadiplosis is a figure of speech.
Anadiplosis is a rhetorical figure that involves the repetition of a word at the end of an expression or a verse and at the beginning of the next. The appeal is also known as conduplication . If the figure is reiterated in several verses or expressions, it is called concatenation .
The etymological journey of the term begins in a Greek word derived from the verb anadiploo , which can be translated as "double" or "reduplicate" . From the Greek language it passed to Latin and finally arrived in our language.
For example: "I always remember those words, / words that marked my being and my soul." As you can see, the term "words" appears both at the end of the first verse and at the beginning of the second verse. This literary figure is an anadiplosis.
Examples of anadiplosis
It is possible that, in the following verses, the succession of anadiplosis generates a concatenation : «I always remember those words, / words that marked my being and my soul. / Soul tortured by pain and betrayals, / betrayals that, like knives, tore me apart . The last word of the first verse ( "words" ) is repeated at the beginning of the second, whose last word ( "soul" ) begins the third. The closing of this third verse ( "betrayals" ), in turn, heads the fourth and final verse.
An example of anadiplosis and concatenation can be found in "Cantares" , a song by Joan Manuel Serrat based on verses by Antonio Machado . In the first stanza, the last three verses present anadiplosis: "... but our thing is to pass, / to pass making paths, / paths over the sea." The terms "pass" and "paths" are found at the beginning and end of the verses.
As in "Song of Songs" , anadiplosis appears in many songs since it is a resource widely used by composers.
Many writers resort to anadiplosis.
Its presence in literature
Throughout the literature , there have been numerous cases of use of the figure of anadiplosis. Among the most significant we can highlight the following:
- In "El Romancero del Cid" it is said like this : "El Cid was very suffering, very tired of work, tired of so many wars that have passed through him."
- In the poem “Consejos” by Antonio Machado it is used in this way: “Today is far from yesterday. Yesterday is Neverland .
- In the same way we cannot ignore the anadiplosis in the work "Otros Sonetos" by Félix Lope de Vega . This is the example: «Danger has the most proven. Ford who does not fear that evil will prevent him. Ask, while luck invites you. Life, and enjoy the good without care. Given" .
- Among the works of the poet Miguel Hernández we also come across "My temple, the flowery balcony of my early ages, is black, and my heart, my heart with gray hair."
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz also used anadiplosis as we can see in this example: "The Sovereign Gaspar par is from the beautiful Elvira, the most upright love of love, made of her own weapons."