• (British, America, Canada) IPA: /ˈsɪmploʊsi/

symploce (plural symploces)

1. (rhetoric) The repetition of one word or phrase at the beginning and another word or phrase at the end of successive phrases or clauses.
   • [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, OCLC 1062248511 ↗, page 77 ↗:

     Symploce sometimes anaphora#English|Anaphora will join
     With epistrophe#English|Epistrophe, and both in one combine.]

   Hypernyms: epanaphora, antistrophe

• Russian: симплока