What is an epiphany? Examples of use

In translation from the Greek epiphany - it's "repetition, addition, pressure." The stylistic reception of repeating the same sounds at the ends of adjacent words in lines can be vividly demonstrated by a simple rhyme. This is a grammatical epic. Examples of it are often found in children's poems:

On the balcony lived together

Poppy, narcissus. They were friends.

Sometimes, in order to emphasize the importance of a single word or phrase, it is repeated at the end of the stanza or lines, forming the so-called tautological rhyme. This is a lexical epiphany. Examples are verses:

To my son at the age of eighteen

The sweetest, beloved, dear,

My hare, Ezhulka-lapulya!

He's funny, so funny -

My little one, my son!

Let the voice is not gentle,

And Ezhulka for a long time I do not call -

Head - to the ceiling!

Became a hedgehog vigorous son ...

Soon the grown-ups will be quite ...

And he will not say, like before: "Mamulya!"

But - will come to visit, and I'm all

He will proudly present: "Sonny!"

Very often a rhetorical epiphany is used. Examples of this technique can be found in songs, especially often in Russian folk songs. A children's song about two geese perfectly demonstrates it with its unforgettable lines: "One is gray, another is white, two cheerful goose", and also poems by Yulia Drunina "You are near".

Often in poetry they use the repetition of the first quatrain in the conclusion. Sometimes they are slightly different, more often - they are repeated verbatim. This is also a rhetorical epic. Examples - The verses of the same Yu. Drunina "There is a time to love."

They begin with the words: "There is a time to love, there is - to write about love", and in the end these lines are repeated with a slight change: instead of the word "write", the author uses the verb "read".

Often in prose authors want to emphasize the significance of a single moment, episode, subject. Then the artist of the word uses a repetition of an episode or one of a certain phrase, a passage. Examples of epiphory are presented in this miniature.

Barcarol of Tchaikovsky

What does Barcarole sing about? About the sea, about love, about hope, about grief ... She herself seems to dissolve in music, experiencing everything anew ... For the umpteenth time ...

The rising noise of the approaching wave, the soft water impact on the shore and the quiet rustling of the back run ... And now a new wave begins to gain strength, rolls to the shore!

The sea is big, warm, affectionate. And on the shore they are together with Max - so dear, so beloved ... And the waves ... Waves ?! They warned of unhappiness! They wanted to say that ... but they did not know how to speak more clearly!

Return trip. Max is driving. He whistles a merry tune. Here he pressed the brakes and lowered his head on the hands folded on the handlebars. All…

She suddenly realized that the irreparable happened, cried out, and turned her face to him! Then it became clear to her that this was all.

And all the sounds disappeared for her at once, like ears poured with cotton. She understood nothing, only she heard again and again the growing noise of the approaching wave ... A gentle blow of water against the shore ... A quiet rustling of the back run ...

She finished the game. I put my hands on my knees. She stood before the quiet, as if empty hall. Silently she bowed in emptiness and silence. And suddenly…

The audience burst into applause! And she stood in front of him, a small, lost, with wet paths, tears on her cheeks. And I did not hear anything ...

And in my ears everything did not stop the growing noise of the approaching wave, the soft blow of water on the shore and the quiet rustle of the back run ... And on the shore they ... Together ... With Max ... So dear, so beloved!