ep|a|na|lep|sis

ep|a|na|lep|sis
ep|a|na|lep|sis «EHP uh nuh LEHP sihs», noun.
a figure of speech in which the same word or phrase is repeated after one or more intervening words or on returning to the same subject after a digression.
[< New Latin epanalepsis < ep- upon + ana- back + Greek lēpsis a taking]

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