Words Like EPISTROPHE
We have put together a list of words that are similar to EPISTROPHE.
1 Alternative Words Similar to epistrophe
5 definitions of epistrophe
1
The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
2
In rhetoric, a figure in which several successive clauses or sentences end with the same word or affirmation: as, “Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham ? so am I.”
3
In music, in a cyclic composition, the original concluding melody, phrase, or section, when repeated at the end of the several divisions; a refrain.
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In botany, the arrangement of chlorophyl-grains, under the influence of light, on the surface-walls of cells and on those parts of the walls which bound intercellular spaces (Frank), or more properly on those walls which are at right angles to the plane of incident light.
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repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.