Epiphora: is the repetition at the end of successive sentences (or clauses). Ex: Financial power. Human power. Market power. (bank slogan)
Ex.: “Now this gentleman had a younger brother of still better appearance than himself, who had tried life as a cornet of dragoons, and found it a bore; and had afterwards tried it in the train of an English minister abroad, and found it a bore…” (Dickens)
Epiphora contributes to rhythmical regularity of speech, making prose resemble poetry. It may be combined with anaphora and parallelism.
The main function of epiphora is to add stress to the final words of the sentence.
Framing is a particular kind of repetition in which the two repeated elements occupy the most prominent positions – the initial and the final, i.e. the beginning of the sentence is repeated in the end, thus forming the "frame" for the non-repeated part of the sentence (utterance) – Ex.: “Never wonder. By means of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, settle everything somehow, and never wonder” (Dickens). The function of framing is to elucidate the notion mentioned in the beginning of the sentence. Between two appearances of the repeated unit there comes the developing middle part of the sentence which explains and clarifies what was introduced in the beginning, so that by the time it is used for the second time its semantics is concretized and specified.
Anadiplosis, parallelism and chiasmus
Anadiplosis (linking or reduplication or catch repetition) is the repetition a word or a phrase at the juncture of two sentences or clauses. A word or a phrase is taken from the previous statement and repeated at the beginning of the next one to emphasize the idea or to throw up a new light on it, i.e. the end of one clause (sentence) is repeated in the beginning of the following one. Ex.: “With Bewick on my knee, I was then happy; happy at least in my way.” (Brontë)
As you can see, repetition is a powerful means of emphasis. Besides, repetition adds rhythm and balance to the utterance. The latter function is the major one in parallel constructions (or parallelism).
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