Epistrophe
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Not to be confused with apostrophe or Epistrophy.
This article is about the rhetorical terminology. For the genus of hoverflies, see Epistrophe (fly).
Epistrophe (Greek: ἐπιστροφή, "return") is the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.[1] It is also known as epiphora and occasionally as antistrophe. It is a figure of speech and the counterpart of anaphora. It is an extremely emphatic device because of the emphasis placed on the last word in a phrase or sentence.
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