Mesodiplosis
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mesodiplosis is a noun meaning (rhetoric) The repetition of terms within successive sentences.
Meaning
(rhetoric) The repetition of terms within successive sentences.
Example Sentences
Somewhat less gentle is the anonymous The Modern Hiawatha, a sharp take on Longfellow’s insistent use of anaphora, mesodiplosis and other forms of repetition in his famous Song of Hiawatha, and also of the sense of bathos that these devices can often create, in part, at least, because of a tendency to over-explain everything by saying the same thing several times.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include symploce, epanalepsis, epistrophe, repetitio, anadiplosis, epanadiplosis.
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