FIGURES OF REPETITION (of words)

Anaphora: Beginning a series of clauses with the same word.

Epistrophe: Ending a series of clauses with the same word.

Symploce: A combination of anaphora and epistrophe.

Epanalepsis: A repetition at the end of a clause or sentence of the word which began it.

Antimetabole: the "conversion "(in almost a logical sense) of a sentence.
The fools thinks himself wise, but the wise man knows himself to
be a fool.

Anadiplosis: The repetition of the last word of one clause or sentence
at the beginning of the next.

Climax: The continued use of anadiplosis.

Polyptoton: Repetition of words derived from the same root.

Diaphora: the repetition of a common name to designate a person and to signify the presence or

absence of qualities connoted by the name.

Diacope: Repetition, with little in between, to express emotion.

Epizeuxis: Repetition with nothing in between, to express emotion.

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