Meaning of epistrophe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
   countable, rhetoric, uncountable
2. An arrangement of chlorophyll grains on the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to apostrophe (an arrangement at right angles to the surface).
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Epistrophe many sentences will close With the same word, in verse as well as prose.”

“As is well known, chloroplast in the epistrophe position presents an oval or more or less circular form; in the apostrophe position a flattened and lenticular form.”

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