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.
UPDATE: Click here to read the December and 2013 Big 8 new-auto sales live blog. Click here to read what auto industry watchers expected for December and the year prior to the results. Total annual U.S. new auto sales are in: 15.6 million new passenger cars and light trucks were purchased in 2013, in line with expectations. Not in line: December, when total sales were seen coming in at 1.36 million units, but with none of the worldâs top eight automakers meeting estimates from analysts who expected Novemberâs good performance to extend to the end of the year.