SYMPLOCE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("symploce" is a kind of...):

repetition (the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device)

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