Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
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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