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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread what is this literary device? #93665 01/28/2003 10:01 PM Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 1 barehands stranger barehands stranger Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 1 What do you call repetition of phrases beginning with the same word, such as: "This blessed plot, this earth, the realm, this England / This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings..." (Richard II) It's like epistrophe ("of the people, by the people, for the people"--see AWAD archives 1201), but not quite the same. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted what is this literary device? barehands 01/28/2003 10:01 PM Re: what is this literary device? Alex Williams 01/28/2003 10:07 PM Post deleted by Wordwind Wordwind 01/28/2003 10:07 PM Post deleted by Wordwind Wordwind 01/28/2003 10:11 PM Post deleted by Wordwind Wordwind 01/28/2003 10:13 PM Re: what is this literary device? Buffalo Shrdlu 01/28/2003 10:14 PM Anna Foura Alex Williams 01/28/2003 10:16 PM Re: what is this literary device? wwh 01/28/2003 10:41 PM Re: what is this literary device? Buffalo Shrdlu 01/29/2003 1:06 AM Re: symploce wwh 01/29/2003 2:05 AM Re: symploce Alex Williams 01/29/2003 2:15 AM Re: symploce wwh 01/29/2003 2:19 AM Re: symploce dxb 01/29/2003 7:44 AM Re: symploce Alex Williams 01/29/2003 10:02 AM Re: symploce wwh 01/29/2003 1:26 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,916 Posts230,395 Members9,211 Most Online12,483 Mar 28th, 2026 Newest Members Boo boo kitty fu, peterreineck, Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd 9,211 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 30 A C Bowden 18 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,216 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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