mesodiplosis
mesodiplosis noun: the repetition of terms within successive sentences.
Noun
mesodiplosis (uncountable)
- The repetition of terms within successive 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...2015 October 2, Billy Mills, “Poster poems: parody”, in The Guardian
Origin of mesodiplosis
From Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, “middle”) + δίπλωσις (díplōsis, “a doubling”)
Questions about mesodiplosis
- What does mesodiplosis mean?
- Mesodiplosis means the repetition of terms within successive sentences.
- What part of speech is mesodiplosis?
- Mesodiplosis is a noun.
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