Writing Devices - Rhetoric v3 Anadiplosis Examples: Effect: Anadiplosis to make something seem inevitable - Fear leads to hate, hate leads to anger, anger leads to suffering. - Yoda - The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death - Shakespeare, Richard II - He put himself in a position where he was going to have to do ten years in prison, that's what he did. And if you know Beaumont, you know ain't no god damn way he can do ten years. And if you know that, then you know Beaumont's gonna do anything Beaumont can to keep from doing them ten years, including telling the federal government any and every motherfucking thing about my black ass. Now that, my friend, is a clear cut case of him or me. And you best believe it ain't gonna be me. - Quentin Tarantino Anadiplosis to Inspire - We glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience, experience, and experience, hope, and hope maketh man not ashamed. - Romans 5:5 - Strength through purity, purity through faith. - V for Vendetta - Tonight, we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution. - George W. Bush - Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. - Malcolm X (layered with anaphora) Effect: Anadiplosis to make something seem logical and easy connected - My waist bone's connected to my hip bone My hip bone's connected to my thigh bone My thigh bone's connected to my knee bone My knee bone's connected to my hardy-har-har-har - Das EFX - The mountains look on Marathon -- And Marathon looks on the sea - Lord Byron - Noust in the grass / grass in the wind / wind on the lark / lark for the sun / Sun through the sea / sea in the heart / heart in its noust / nothing is lost - John Glenday - Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. - Henry James - What I present here is what I remember of the letter, and what I remember of the letter I remember verbatim (including that awful French.) - Vladimir Nabokov Effect: Anadiplosis to reach or convey an absurd conclusion - A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich. - The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story. - Gladiator - If the soup had been as warm as the wine, and the wine as old as the fish, and the fish as young as the maid, and the maid as willing as the hostess, it would have been a very good meal.