Translated from the Greek epiphora is"Repetition, addition, pressure." The stylistic method of repeating the same sounds at the ends of adjacent words in lines can be clearly demonstrated with a simple rhyme. This is the grammatical epiphora. Examples of it are often found in children's poems:
On the balcony lived together
Mac, daffodil. They were friends.
Sometimes in order to emphasize the importance of someone word or phrase it is repeated at the end of a stanza or lines, forming a so-called tautological rhyme. This is the lexical epiphora. Examples are poems:
My little son on his eighteenth birthday
The sweetest, beloved, dear,
My little rabbit, Ezhulka-Lapulya!
He is funny, so funny -
My baby, my son!
Let not a gentle voice,
And I haven’t called Ezhulka for a long time -
Head - to the ceiling!
Became Ezhishchev pohyrast sonny ...
Soon, adults will become quite ...
And she will not say, as before: "Mom!"
But - come to visit, and I'm all
I proudly present: "Son!"
Very often used rhetorical epiphora.Examples of this technique can be found in the songs, especially often in Russian folk. A children's song about two geese perfectly demonstrates it with its unforgettable lines: “One is gray, the other is white, two funny geese”, as well as the poems by Yulia Drunina “You're near”.
Often in poetry they use the repetition of the first quatrain in conclusion. Sometimes they are slightly different, more often - repeated verbatim. This is also a rhetorical epiphora. Examples - poems of the same Y. Drunina "There is a time to love."
They begin with the words: “There is time to love, there is - to write about love,” and at the end these lines are repeated with a slight change: instead of the word “write,” the author uses the verb “read.”
Often in prose, the authors want to emphasize the significanceof a single moment, episode, subject. Then the word artist uses a repetition of an episode or one of a phrase, a passage. Examples of epiphora are presented in this miniature.
Barcarol Tchaikovsky
What does Barcarolle sing about? About the sea, about love, about hope, about grief ... She herself seemed to dissolve in music, experiencing everything all over again ... For the umpteenth time ...
The increasing noise of the approaching wave, the soft blow of water on the shore and the quiet rustle of the reverse run ... And now the new wave begins to gain momentum, rolls on the shore!
The sea is a big, warm, affectionate.And on the shore they are together with Max - so dear, so loved ... And the waves ... Waves ?! They warned of misfortune! They wanted to say that ... but they could not speak more clearly!
Return trip. Max is driving. Whistling funny tune. Here he pressed the brakes and lowered his head to the folded hands on the steering wheel. Everything…
She suddenly guessed what had happened irreparable, screamed, began to turn his face to herself! Then it became clear to her that this was all.
She finished the game. Put her hands on her knees. She stood in front of the silent as if an empty hall. Silently bowed to the emptiness and silence. And suddenly…
The audience burst into applause! And she stood before him, small, lost, with wet paths of tears on her cheeks. And I did not hear anything ...
And in my ears all did not stop the rising noise of an approaching wave, the soft blow of water on the shore and the quiet rustle of the reverse run ... And on the shore they ... Together ... With Max ... So dear, so loved!
