Symploce
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In rhetoric, symploce is a figure of speech in which the a word or phrase is used successively at the beginning of two or more clauses or sentences and another word or phrase is used successively at the end of the same. It is the combination of anaphora and epistrophe. It derives from the Greek word , meaning "interweaving".
[edit] Examples
"When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it." Bill Clinton
[edit] References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920). Greek Grammar. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, p. 683. ISBN 0-674-36250-0.
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