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.
The present Air Force One aircraft, which first flew under then US president George H W Bush in 1990, were commissioned by Ronald Reagan. Currently, there are only 20 models of Boeing 747-200 jumbo jets, which mostly carry cargo in the developed world. People sometimes ask me what the biggest perk of being president is, US President Barack Obama told visitors at the White House last week.