symploce



sim'-plo-see or
sim'-plo-kee
from Gk. sym, "together" and plekein "to weave"
Also sp. symploche, symploke
adjunct, circulo rhetorica, conplexio
the figure of reply



The combination of anaphora and epistrophe: beginning a
series of lines, clauses, or sentences with the same word or
phrase while simultaneously repeating a different word or
phrase at the end of each element in this series.

Examples

"Against yourself you are calling him,
against the laws you are calling him,
against the democratic constitution you are calling him" —Aeschines