symploce

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  1. In rhetoric, the repetition of one word at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, as in the sentence “Mercy descended from heaven to dwell on the earth; Mercy fled back to heaven and left the earth.” This figure is a combination of epanaphora and epistrophe (whence the name). Also, incorrectly, simploce. Take me the two former figures [anaphora and antistrophe] and put them into one, and it is that which the Greekes call symploche, … and is a maner of repetition. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 166.

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  1. from Greek συμπλοκή, an interweaving, interlacing (cf. σύμπλοκος, interwoven), from συμπλέκειν, weave together: see symplectic.
 

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