Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
SYMPLOCE
symploce
(noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
symploce (plural symploces)
(rhetoric) The repetition of one word or phrase at the beginning and another word or phrase at the end of successive phrases or clauses.
Hypernyms: epanaphora, antistrophe
Source: Wiktionary
Sym"plo*ce, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Rhet.)
Definition: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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