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n. - (rhetoric) Repetion of a word for emphasis.

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Usage examples (3)
  • This figure is known to the rhetoricians as anadiplosis, or the beginning of a phrase with the final words of the previous phrase; it is also ploce, the insistent...
  • When being charged by ploce, do they have to do it in person or can they do it through letter?
  • That is to say, it’s a game about driving away from the ploce as fast as you can.
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