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symploce

/ˈsɪm.plə.si/

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noun

/ˈsɪm.plə.si/C2formalart
  • ruРиторический приём, включающий повторение слова или фразы в начале и другого слова или фразы в конце последовательных предложений, сочетающий анафору и эпифору.

A rhetorical device involving the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, combining anaphora and epistrophe.

  1. Rhetorical figureC2formal

    A rhetorical device where a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive clauses (anaphora) and another word or phrase is repeated at the end of those same clauses (epistrophe).

    ruРиторическая фигура

    • When the snow falls, and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
    • In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream, at night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines.
    • We are the people who run this country, we are the people who built this country.