Epiphora (from other Greek: ἐπιφορά - bringing, adding) - a stylistic figure , an artistic device, which consists in repeating the final linguistic units (sounds, words, grammatical forms) of adjacent sections of speech in order to emphasize meaning or enhance emotional coloring [1 ] . Epiphora is very often used in poetic speech and in folklore in the form of the same or similar endings of stanzas (for example, Alexander Gladkov’s poetic play “Once Upon a Time” and the song of the same name from the movie “Hussar Ballad”).
By the method of epiphora formation, it can be double, sound, morphological, syntactic, derivational, etc.
The opposite of epiphora is anaphora .
Examples
Scallops, all scallops: pelerinka from scallops, sleeves scallops, epaulettes from scallops, bottom scallops, everywhere scallops.
- N.V. Gogol . Dead Souls
And justice itself is that law of the time, so that it devours its children, - so preached madness.
Morally, everything is distributed by law and punishment. Ah, where is the deliverance from the stream of things and from the punishment of "existence"? So preached madness.
Can there be deliverance if eternal law exists? Ah, the stone “was” motionless: all punishments must be eternal. So Madness Preached
- Nietzsche . So said Zarathustra
My name is young beard,
I really don't care.
But they don’t call a coward ...
Once upon a time ... Once upon a time ...
Something else twists vehemently,
Bottles everyone's eyes,
But he is only a copy of a hussar ...
Once upon a time ... Once upon a time ...
Someone swears passionate passion
But if the wine is drunk
All his passion at the bottom of the bottle ...
Once upon a time ... Once upon a time ...
Sea lovers knee-deep
I am with them in this,
But guards of all treason ...
Once upon a time ... Once upon a time ...- A. Gladkov
Everywhere you see the policeman
Policeman is visible from the East
And from the South you can see the policeman
And from the sea you can see the policeman
And from the sky you can see the policeman
And from the ground ...
Yes, he is not hiding
D. Prigov. "The Apotheosis of Militsanera (1978)."
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Notes
- ↑ Linguistic Encyclopedic Dictionary . http://tapemark.narod.ru/ . Circulation date May 14, 2019.