Talk:Epistrophe

name error
Does this page really say "John G. Kennedy"? 24.239.146.171 16:07, 1 March 2009
 * Not anymore. Arlo James Barnes 18:48, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

improperly cited source
The book review cited from Philosophy and Literature (Sentence quoted below)has absolutely no relation to the content is is supposed to support!

Platonic Epistrophe

Greek Epistrophe is a word coined by Plato as a goal of philosophical education and the term adopted by early Christians for conversions. http://muse.jhu.edu/article/416206, 10.1353/phl.1994.0036

I went ahead and corrected the quotation and the citation and I deleted a sentence following it because it was full of typos and did not seem to relate. Mm2cat (talk) 22:53, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

modern example
Here is a modern example I originally posted, and another user edited for clarity:

We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again! http://www.vox.com/2016/7/21/12253426/donald-trump-acceptance-speech-transcript-republican-nomination-transcript ("Full transcript of Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the RNC", Brad Plumer 2016-07-22 for Vox accessed 2016-07-22

Prior to the edit for clarity. An IP had deleted the example and I mistakenly viewed it as post-election vandalism and undid the deletion. My apologies to that IP who said s/he had deleted it because it was an "anaphora." The IP may be correct. In fact, I'm leaning that way now myself. So I've moved the example here for discussion. BudJillett (talk) 03:06, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

I finally realized the issue here. . . it is both an anaphora AND an epistrophe, depending on which end of the sentences you're looking at. Which of course begs the question, does it make a very good example being that it lends itself to confusion? I'm thinking probably not. BudJillett (talk) 03:18, 24 December 2017 (UTC)


 * I think it would then be a good example of Symploce Eggventura (talk) 14:51, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

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