symploce

Noun

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Noun (1)

  1. repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistropheType of repetition
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Sym′plo·ce noun

Origin: L., fr. Gr. … an interweaving, fr. … to twine together; … + … to twine.

Rhetoric The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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