epanalepsis
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- repetition after intervening wordsType of repetition
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ep·an′a·lep′sis noun
Origin: NL., fr. Gr. …; ἐπί + … to take up.
Rhetoric A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter. Josiah Willard Gibbs
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54