| symploce | |
| sim'-plo-see
or sim'-plo-kee |
from Gk. sym, "together" and plekein "to weave" |
| Also sp. symploche, symploke | |
| adjunct, circulo rhetorica, conplexio | |
| the figure of reply |
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The combination of anaphora and epistrophe: beginning a series of lines, clauses, or sentences with the same word or phrase while simultaneously repeating a different word or phrase at the end of each element in this series. | |
| Examples | ||
| "Against
yourself you are calling him, against the laws you are calling him, against the democratic constitution you are calling him" —Aeschines |
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| Sources: | Ad Herennium 4.14.20 ("conplexio"); Sherry (1550) 47 ("symploce," "conplexio"); Suarez ("complexio" "symploche") 59r; Peacham (1577) I1v; Fraunce (1588) 1.21 ("symploce," "complexio," "comprehensio"); Putt. (1589) 209 ("symploche," "the figure of replie"); Day 1599 85 ("symploche"); Hoskins (1599)13 ("symploce," "complexio") | |
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