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.
So so so so so many planes. 1  The U.S. Air Force has a lot of fighter planes. 2  Made by Contemporary Issues and Geography, this poster accounts for every single fighter in the U.S. Air Force as of June 2015, organized by squadron, and it's a ton and, well, it's a ton. ( 3 You can check out the full-sized, hi-res version here.)