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Encyclopedia > Epistrophe

This figure of speech is the counterpart of anaphora, because the repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. It is an extremely emphatic device because of the emphasis placed on the last word in a phrase or sentence. A figure of speech, sometimes termed a rhetorical figure or device, or elocution, is a word or phrase that departs from straightforward, literal language. ... In rhetoric, anaphora (from the Greek anaphérō, «I repeat») is the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of several consecutive sentences or verses to emphasize an image or a concept. ... A phrase is a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. ... In grammar, a clause is a group of words consisting of a subject and a predicate, although, in non-finite clauses, the subject is often not explicitly given. ... The word emphasis, in addition to its main dictionary meaning, may have the following techincal meanings. ...


E.g. Where affections bear rule, there reason is subdued, honesty is subdued, good will is subdued, and all things else that withstand evil, for ever are subdued -- Thomas (?) Wilson


Or: Government of the people, by the people, for the people,


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World Wide Words: Symploce (242 words)
The first of these has more than one sense; in this case it refers to an oratorical device by which the first words of a section of prose are repeated.
In epistrophe the repetition occurs at the end of phrases.
Anaphora combines ana-, back, with pherein, to bear (in other words, to repeat); epistrophe is from epistrephein, to turn around; symploce derives from symplekein, to weave together.
A.Word.A.Day--Today's Word (126 words)
If women are free from violence, their families will flourish.
Clinton and her speech writer, Lissa Muscatine, decided to push alliterative epistrophe." William Safire, First Lady's, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct 1, 1995.
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
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