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EPANALEPSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epanalepsis mean? 

EPANALEPSIS (noun)
  The noun EPANALEPSIS has 1 sense:

1. repetition after intervening wordsplay

  Familiarity information: EPANALEPSIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EPANALEPSIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Repetition after intervening words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("epanalepsis" is a kind of...):

repetition (the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device)


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