1678 Phillips, *Epanadiplosis..a Rhetorical figure wherein a sentence begins and ends with the same word; as Severe to his servants, to his children severe.
1736 Bailey, Epanadiplosis..In Latin this figure is called Inclusio.
1847 Craig, Epanadiplosis.
1584 D. Fenner Artes Logike & Rethorike sig. D3v,*Epanalepsis, which signifieth to take backe.
1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb. ) 210Epanalepsis, or the Eccho sound..Much must he be beloued, that loueth much.
a1619 M. Fotherby Atheom. (1622)Pref. 10A Poeticall Epanalepsis or reduplication.
1736 Bailey, Epanalepsis, a repetition.
1847 Craig, Epanalepsis.
1927 F. J. E. Raby Hist. Chr. Latin Poetry iii. 96Luxorius..shows a vicious taste for the cento and for *epanaleptic verses.
1956 Auden Old Man's Road,The language they loved was coming to grief, Expiring in preposterous mechanical tricks, epanaleptics, rhopalics, anacyclic acrostics.
1678 Phillips, *Epanaphora, a figure in which the same word begins several sentences.
1864 Webster, Epanaphora.
1906 Athenæum 10 Mar. 303/2 Under cover of all this *epanaphoral fury..Mr. Campbell has in more than one instance shifted his ground.
1864 Webster, *Epanastrophe.
1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb. ) 229*Epanodis, or the figure of Retire.
a1679 Hobbes Rhet. (1840) 523Epanados..signifies the turning to the same tune.
1812 Knox & Jebb Corr. II. 79The epanodos, or..speaking first, to the latter of two propositions; afterwards, to the former.
1847 Craig, Epanodos..a rhetorical figure, when a sentence or member is inverted, or repeated backward.
1579 E. K. Gloss. Spenser'sSheph. Cal. Jan. 61A prety *Epanorthosis in these two verses.
1672 H. More Brief Reply 172By a seasonable Epanorthosis he straightway adds, etc.
1736 Bailey, Epanorthosis.
1847 Craig, Epanorthosis.
ORIGIN: from epi- + Greek ana up, again.