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Epistrophe, also known as epiphora (and occasionally as antistrophe), is a figure of speech and the counterpart of anaphora. It is the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. It is an extremely emphatic device because of the emphasis placed on the last word in a phrase or sentence.

Examples

Where affections bear rule, there reason is subdued, honesty is subdued, good will is subdued, and all things else that withstand evil, for ever are subdued. — Thomas Wilson
... this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shan't perish from the earth. — Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. — The Bible, 1 Cor 13:11
"Epistrophy," a Thelonious Monk tune that uses an epistrophe of notes.

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