Symploce

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Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Symploce has 1 sense

symploce(n = noun.communication) Array - 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; Array

is a kind of

repetition

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Symploce, n. [L., fr. Gr. an interweaving, fr. to twine together; + to twine.].

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. [1913 Webster]

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