/ep'euh neuh lep"sis/ , n. Rhet.
a repetition of a word or a phrase with intervening words setting off the repetition, sometimes occurring with a phrase used both at the beginning and end of a sentence, as in Only the poor really know what it is to suffer; only the poor.
[ 1575-85; epanálepsis lit., resumption, taking up again, equiv. to ep- EP- + ana- ANA- + lêpsis taking hold ( lep-, var. s. of lambánein to take + -sis -SIS) ]