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OP "epistrophe (i-PIS-truh-fee) noun" I find this pronunciation unappealing. In the first place, I don't know what a "struffy" is, and piss has nothing to do with it either.
I like "http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/webster.form.html" pronunciation much better.
Epistrophe (Page: 503)
E*pis"tro*phe (?), n. [L., from Gr. a turning toward, return, fr. to turn toward; upon, to + to
turn.] (Rhet.) A figure in which successive clauses end with the same word or affirmation; e. g.,
Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I." 2 Cor. xi. 22.
How about a vote on it?
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