Lecture
Symploce (from Ancient Greek συμπλοκή — interweaving) — a stylistic figure of the repetition of words in adjacent verses or phrases. It is generally defined as a combination of epiphora and anaphora, that is, the repetition of the beginning and the end with variation of the middle, for example, «In the field a birch tree stood / In the field the curly one stood».
Kvyatkovsky's dictionary of poetic terms also calls symploce the opposite figure, in which the beginnings and ends of the periods differ while the middle stays the same: «For the young, everywhere among us the road is open, / For the old, everywhere among us there is honour» (V. Lebedev-Kumach).
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Adynaton • Allusion • Amplification • Anadiplosis • Anacoluthon • Anaphora • Antithesis • Antitheton • Apocope • Apostrophe • Attraction • Asyndeton • Hyperbaton •Homoioteleuton • Gradation (Climax, Anticlimax) • Distinctio • Zeugma • Isocolon • Nominative of theme • Inversion • Correctio • M |
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