By Richard Nordquist. Definition: A rhetorical term for the repetition of words or phrases at both the beginning and end of successive clauses or verses: a combination of anaphora and epiphora (or epistrophe). See Examples and Observations, below. Also see: 1  Effective Rhetorical Strategies of Repetition. 2  Epimone. 3  Gradatio. 4  Top 20 Figures of Speech.
At any given moment, roughly 5,000 planes are in the skies above the United States. In one year, controllers handle an average of 64 million takeoffs and landings. For every one flight you see listed on an airport monitor, two you don't see show up on air traffic controllers' screens.
Southwest currently operates 527 Boeing 737 jets (as of May 16, 2008). Only 25 of the planes are configured with 122 seats. All of the rest are configured with 137 seats. The addition 119 orders planes that Southwest has on order for the next seven years are all Boeing 737-700 model equipped with 137 seats. If you are interested this is less than the recommended capacity.