1. …or “…the shin bone’s connected to the knee bone…”
Anadiplosis
…or “…the shin bone’s connected to the knee bone…”

2. Definition and Usage
Definition: Repetition of words, such that the word that ends a clause begins the next clause. Frequently multiple uses of Anadiplosis are strung together to create effects.
Usage:
To add rhythm and cadence
To add momentum
To add emphasis and power
To show cause and effect

3. Adding rhythm and cadence
Toe bone connected to the foot bone
Foot bone connected to the heel bone
Heel bone connected to the ankle bone
Ankle bone connected to the shin bone
Shin bone connected to the knee bone
Knee bone connected to the thigh bone
Thigh bone connected to the hip bone
Hip bone connected to the back bone
Back bone connected to the shoulder bone
Shoulder bone connected to the neck bone
Neck bone connected to the head bone
Now hear the word of the Lord.
The farmer takes a wife…
The wife takes the child…
The child takes the nurse…
The nurse takes the cow…
The cow takes the dog…
The dog takes the cat…
The cat takes the rat…
The Rat takes the cheese…
The cheese stands alone.

4. Adding momentum
When your cable’s on the fritz, you get frustrated. When you get frustrated, your daughter imitates. When your daughter imitates, she gets thrown out of school. When she gets thrown out of school, she meets undesirables. When she meets undesirables, she ties the knot with undesirables. And when she ties the knot with undesirables, you get a grandson with a dog collar. Don’t have a grandson with a dog collar. Get rid of cable and upgrade to DirecTV.

5. Adding Emphasis and Power
The teachers are afraid of the administrators,
the administrators are afraid of the school board,
the school board is afraid of the parents,
the parents are afraid of the children,
and the children are afraid of nobody.
The Bible
“Make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.
2 Peter 1:5-7

6. Adding emphasis and power
“The general who became a slave, the slave who became a gladiator, the gladiator who defied an Emperor.”
--Gladiator
"If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.“
--The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior
"Aboard my ship, excellent performance is standard. Standard performance is sub-standard. Sub-standard performance is not permitted to exist.“
--Queeg, in The Caine Mutiny
“To be early is to be on-time. To be on-time is to be late. To be late is [to be wrong].”
--Various sources

7. Showing Cause and Effect
“Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
--Yoda
“For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.”
--Benjamin Franklin

8. Practice practice practice
This is your assignment, an assignment you should do for homework, homework you should do to learn, learning you will need for your future, a future filled with success, success you will owe all to me. 
Make three original uses of anadiplosis. Make at least one of them (but not all of them) a usage which shows cause and effect.