epanodos

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπάνοδος (epánodos).

Noun

epanodos (countable and uncountable, plural epanodoses)

1. (rhetoric) The repetition of a sequence of words or phrases in reverse order.
   • 1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 83:

     By Epanodos the same word moves its place,
     Takes first and last and also middle space.

2. Recapitulation of the main points in a discourse.