MEANING
A repeated passage, scene, or theme, especially one returning in a musical or dramatic work.
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Name a deliberate return of an earlier image or theme.Track a recurring image, scene, or musical phrase that gains meaning when it returns.
Words that belong together
- a reprise of a theme
- reprise of an earlier scene
- musical reprise
On the page
The second chapter offered a bleak reprise of the opening scene.
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Usage notes
Often names a deliberate return of material; as a verb, “reprise” means perform or take up again.
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