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symploce

UK/ˈsɪmploʊsi/

symploce noun: the repetition of one word or phrase at the beginning and another word or phrase at the end of successive phrases or clauses.

Noun

symploce (plural symploces)

  1. (rhetoric) The repetition of one word or phrase at the beginning and another word or phrase at the end of successive phrases or clauses.
    • Symploce sometimes Anaphora will join
      With Epistrophe, and both in one combine.1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Symploce.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 77

Forms of symploce

pluralsymploces

Origin of symploce

From Ancient Greek συμπλοκή (sumplokḗ, “interweaving”).

Questions about symploce

What does symploce mean?
Symploce means the repetition of one word or phrase at the beginning and another word or phrase at the end of successive phrases or clauses.
What part of speech is symploce?
Symploce is a noun.
How do you pronounce symploce?
Symploce is pronounced /ˈsɪmploʊsi/ (UK).
What is the plural of symploce?
The plural of symploce is symploces.

Words near symploce in the dictionary

  1. symplesiomorphically
  2. symplesiomorphies
  3. symplesiomorphy
  4. symplesite
  5. symplocaceous
  6. symploce
  7. symploces
  8. symploidy
  9. sympode
  10. sympodes
  11. sympodia

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