Tobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them. The plant is part of the genus Nicotiana and of the Solanaceae (nightshade) family. While more than 70 species of tobacco are known, the chief commercial crop is N. tabacum.
Definition of Epistrophe. Epistrophe is a figure of speech that involves the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences. Epistrophe is also known as epiphora or antistrophe. The word epistrophe comes from the Greek for âreturn.â. The definition of epistrophe is opposite to that of anaphora, which is the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.
2. apostrophe-the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word. punctuation mark, punctuation-the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases. Translations. [ÉËpÉstrÉfÉª] N.. the punctuation mark ' used to indicate the omission of a letter or number, such as he's for he has or he is, also used in English to form the possessive, as in John's father and twenty pounds' worth. [C17: from Late Latin, from Greek apostrophos mark of elision, from apostrephein to turn away].