Epistrophe

//__Epistrophe __//


 * Definition:: **The technique of ending subsequent sentences or clauses with the same word


 * Origin:: **from the Greek, meaning //turning upon//


 * See also:: **epiphora

Definition taken from (Oxford English Dictionary).


 * Examples ** from text:

1) "They were all __//**grotesques**//__. All of the men and women the writer had ever known had become __//**grotesques**//__." - from Sherwood Anderson's "The Book of the Grotesque"

2) "She breathed a quick prayer __//**that life might be long**//__. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder __//**that life might be long**//__." - from Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"



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