Symploce (sim’-plo-see or sim’-plo-kee): The combination of anaphora and epistrophe: beginning a series of lines, clauses, or sentences with the same word or phrase while simultaneously repeating a different word or phrase at the end of each element in this series.
Without some degree of certainty about healthcare reform, it is difficult for businesses and investors to plan for the future.
Without some degree of certainty about healthcare reform, it is difficult for parents and their children to plan for the future.
Without some degree of certainty about healthcare reform, it is difficult for working people and retirees to plan for the future; and, for people with preexisting conditions, even after the Supreme Court’s ruling, it is nearly immoral to force them to sweat out the summer in fear, at the edge of catastrophe, not knowing whether they will be insured after November’s election.
Stop beating your Republican chest and boasting that you will repeal the Affordable Care Act (or what you call “Obamacare”) when you’re elected.
Your cruelty is unbearable.
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)
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