Symploce

//__Symploce __//


 * Definition:: **
 * - **The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe.

- IE: In St. Paul's letters, he seeks **symploce** to reinforce in the reader the fact that his opponents are no better than he is: "Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they of the seed of Abraham? So am I."



1570-80; < Neo-Latin symplocē < Greek symplokḗ intertwining, combination, equivalent to sym- __ [|sym-] __ + plokḗ, noun derivative of plékein to plait, twine; akin to Latin plectere ( see __ [|-plex] __)
 * Origin:: **

[Anaphora] [epistrophe] [rhetorical schemes]
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 * Examples ** from text:

1) " ...Granwel placing the barrel of his pistol against her heart and indicating with a gesture that she was surrounded, 'you have __no hope of escape__, Mademoiselle, __no hope at all__...' "-**" Miss Henrietta Stralson, or, The Effects of Despair,** The Marquis De Sade //The Crimes of Love// (1881)

2) Her voice was dry and cold. "__I have no taxes in Jefferson__. __Colonel Sartoris__ explained it to me. Perhaps one of you can gain access to the city records and satisfy yourselves."

"But we have. We are the city authorities, Miss Emily. Didn't you get a notice from the sheriff, signed by him?"

"I received a paper, yes," Miss Emily said. "Perhaps he considers himself the sheriff . . . __I have no taxes in Jefferson__."

"But there is nothing on the books to show that, you see We must go by the--"

"See __Colonel Sartoris__. __I have no taxes in Jefferson.__"

"But, Miss Emily--"

"See __Colonel Sartoris__." (Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.) "__I have no taxes in Jefferson__. Tobe!" The Negro appeared. "Show these gentlemen out." - **A Rose for Emily**, William Faulkner

Definition from: thefreedictionary.com /// dictionary.com/// "Rhetorical Schemes"- http://web.cn.edu

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