symploce
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek συμπλοκή (sumplokḗ, “interweaving”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsɪmploʊsi/[1]
Noun
symploce (plural symploces)
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The white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. - Malcolm X |
- (rhetoric) The repetition of one word or phrase at the beginning and another word or phrase at the end of successive phrases or clauses.
- [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, OCLC 1062248511, page 77:
- Symploce sometimes Anaphora will join
With Epistrophe, and both in one combine.]
- Hypernyms: epanaphora, antistrophe
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References
- Dictionary.com, based on Random House Dictionary