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epistrophe (countable and uncountable, plural epistrophes)

  • (rhetoric) The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
    • ✤ Synonyms: epiphora, antistrophe
    • ✤ Antonym: anaphora
    • ✤ * Epistrophe * many sentences will close
      With the same word, in verse as well as prose.      1
  • (botany) An arrangement of chlorophyll grains on the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to apostrophe (an arrangement at right angles to the surface).
    • ✤ As is well known, chloroplast in the epistrophe position presents an oval or more or less circular form; in the apostrophe position a flattened and lenticular form.2

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin epistrophē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπιστροφή (epistrophḗ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɪˈpɪstrəfi/
  • Hyphenation: e‧pis‧tro‧phe

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Footnotes

  1. 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Epistrophe.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 75: ↩

  2. 1905 September 8, Harold Wager, “On Some Problems of Cell Structure and Physiology”, in English Mechanics and the World of Science, volume 82, number 2111, page 105: ↩

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