Word of the Day – Epistrophe

Epistrophe (noun)

i-pis-trof-ee

Also called epiphora. Rhetoric. the repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences, as in “I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong.

First recorded in 1640–50; from New Latin, from Greek epistrophḗ; see epi-, strophe

Example sentences

“The script ended with a clever piece of epistrophe.”