symploce

• Figure de rhétorique consistant à répéter un même mot ou groupe de mots en début de phrases ou de membres de phrases successifs, et un autre mot ou groupe de mots en fin de ces mêmes segments, combinant ainsi anaphore et épiphore.

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).

   Symploce

   • 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.