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.
Ditching Dreamliners: United buys older, cheaper planes. While United Airlines was the first U.S. carrier to fly the 787 Dreamliner, it has scrapped an order for 10 new 787s. Price trumps all in airline economics, which is why United has scrapped an order for 10 new 787s in order to buy an equal number of older, larger, less-fuel-efficient airplanes.