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Repetition & Refrain

Symploce

SIM-ploh-see / ˈsɪmploʊsiː

Anaphora and epistrophe at once: several clauses in a row share both their opening and their closing words, with only the middle changing. The fixed frame makes the changing part stand out.

"When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it." — Bill Clinton

Don't confuse it with Parallelism. Not mere parallelism: symploce requires the identical words at both edges, not just matching grammar.

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In the Reader — 1 excerpt

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. They were coming toward where the flag was and I went along the fence. Luster was
— William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury · open the passage →

The rest of the family

Anaphora Epistrophe Epanalepsis Anadiplosis Gradatio / Climax Epizeuxis Diacope Conduplicatio Polyptoton