Anadiplosis

Anadiplosis, like its sister, Mesodiplosis, is a word formed of three parts:

1. ᾰ̓νᾰ- (Ana), meaning "back", probably.
2. δίπλω (díplō), meaning "a doubling"
3. σις (-sis), suffix to turn verbs to nouns.

And like its sister, it's about repeating something in consecutive phrases to connect them, but in this case, it's linking them at the touching ends.

Antati (anta=end, ati=beginning) is a specific form of Tamil poetry which consists entirely of Anadiploses. Taken a step further—the first word of the series of verses is the same as the final word of the poem—, it becomes a 'garland of verses'.

When used in prose it's usually to illustrate a sequence, or otherwise respond to the end of a phrase. Repeated for Emphasis doesn't count because that must repeat without continuing on. Antimetaboles, consecutive phrases with their word order flipped, such as "Tous pour un, un pour tous" of The Three Musketeers, may also be anadiplosises, and is also Mesodiplosis.

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Examples:

Fan Works

• The Dragon King's Temple: Chapter 5: "You healed her" repetition cut off by a phrase change, to emphasis it:
  Speaking of skepticism – Toph threw her hands in the air, nearly clipping his nose in passing and forcing his attention back from its wandering path. “Sparky, you healed her! You healed her using firebending! Why didn’t anyone say anything? Uncle didn’t tell you, the Sages didn’t tell you, even your stupid dragons didn’t tell you!”

Films — Live-Action

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail: After the Knights of Ni call for a narrative interlude, one arises that contains:
  Narrator: Winter changed into spring, spring changed into summer, summer changed back into winter, and winter gave spring and summer a miss and went straight on into autumn.
• Scarface (1983): Tony Montana sums it up:
  "In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
• Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: When Yoda first meets with young Anakin, he asks Anakin what he is feeling, and has words of wisdom when Anakin feels fear.
  Yoda: Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Literature

• The Bible:
  • Romans 5:4 (NCV): "And patience produces character, and character produces hope."
  • 2 Peter 1:5-7 (NIV): "...make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love."
• A Certain Magical Index: In the second volume's second chapter's fifth section, the Gregorian Chant spell, spoken/cast by multiple speakers inhumanly with awkward punctuation to match and is structured like a chain, possibly for ease of chanting/repetition. Some fragments are:
  The seraph's wings are a shining light, the shining light is the immaculate white, which exposes sin———————-
  The immaculate white is the 'proof of purification, that proof is the result of' motion———————
  [...]
  singularity is sin, sin is man, man' 'fears punishment, fear' is 'crime
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: In a Pensieve Flashback, a young adult Voldemort visits Dumbledore to inquire about the open position of Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts. When Dumbledore mentions the rumors that he has been doing bad things, Voldemort's excuse is "Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. You must know this, Dumbledore."
• Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: Princesses in the Darkest Depths: An instance of someone falling into being the thrall of what might be "The Great Evil" of Princesses Don't Play Nice, or in other terms, the "Dragon God":
  Lost One: That which sleeps may dream; which dreams, may despair; which despairs, welcomes the nullification of all.
• The Three Musketeers: The catchphrase of the group, in the original French, "Tous pour un, un pour tous", which is also Mesodiplosis.

Music

Musicians:

• Bruce Springsteen: "Badlands":
  "Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king
  And a king ain't satisfied till he rules everything"
• The Smashing Pumpkins: "Zero":
  Emptiness is loneliness
  and loneliness is cleanliness
  and cleanliness is godliness
  and God is empty...just like me.
• The Wanted: "Glad You Came":
  Turn the lights out now/Now I'll take you by the hand
  Hand you another drink/Drink it if you can...

Albums:

• Melt: "Games Without Frontiers":
  Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane
  Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again

Tabletop Games

• Magic: The Gathering: The Flavor Text of "Squandered Resources", talking about a Chain of Deals, with "for" Mesodiplosis for every link in the chain, and Anadiplosis of every item in it, except at the end:
  He traded sand for skins, skins for gold, gold for life. In the end, he traded life for sand.

Video Games

• Diablo: "Hate begets Destruction. Destruction begets Terror as Terror begets Hate" is used multiple times:
  • It's part of an oft-quoted passage from the Guhawj Cave Inscriptions regarding the Prime Evils Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal:
    Sins beget sins as men beget men
    Terror begets Hate and Hate begets Destruction
    Destruction begets Terror as Terror begets Hate
  • The Demon Hunters from Diablo III use it as part of their warning not to let the hatred that they all share for the demons that destroyed their previous lives consume them, calling it the Law of the Three. As Josen mentions in the short story "Hatred and Discipline":
    "Rage. Hate. Fear. They all feed upon one another. A demon hunter learns how to direct hate. But such a balance is precarious. And when that balance is lost, the cycle begins: Hate begets Destruction. Destruction begets Terror as Terror begets Hate."
• Final Fantasy IX: Necron's pre-battle speech in the English versions of the game paraphrases Yoda's speech to Anakin from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
  Necron: "It starts with anxiety. Anxiety becomes fear... Fear leads to anger... anger leads to hate... hate leads to suffering..."
• Prayer of the Faithless: The Lavingard Chapel talks about a "blessing of the stars" that acquiring requires the opening of the gate "within thine heart":
  To adore, one must believe. To believe, one must witness.
• Ruphand: An Apothecary's Adventure: Brill's Bestiary's response to her note about Ebon Rooks' shields:
  Ebon Rooks have a heavy shield that blocks almost anything. Almost anything except Thunder!
• Workshop In The Ironwood Grove: When talking to the Researcher before the final battle, he discusses the brilliant mind that was lost, and Neris continues his thoughts:
  Researcher: We have lost a brilliant mind.
  Neris: A brilliant mind... and a good man as well, it seems.

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