April 18, 2017,Expect bus delays for Woodbridge High School due to a traffic accident on Old Bridge Road. No reports of students or staff involved.
(Ätâ²rÉ-fÄ) n. pl. atÂ·roÂ·phies. 1. A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use: muscular atrophy of a person affected with paralysis. 2. A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution: intellectual atrophy. v. atÂ·roÂ·phied, atÂ·roÂ·phyÂ·ing, atÂ·roÂ·phies.
Epistrophe is a rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. Also known as epiphora and antistrophe. Contrast with anaphora (rhetoric). The trope of obsession is how Mark Forsyth characterizes epistrophe. It's the trope of emphasizing one point again and again.