Tobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them. The plant is part of the genus Nicotiana and of the Solanaceae (nightshade) family. While more than 70 species of tobacco are known, the chief commercial crop is N. tabacum.
Definition of Epistrophe. Epistrophe is a figure of speech that involves the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences. Epistrophe is also known as epiphora or antistrophe. The word epistrophe comes from the Greek for âreturn.â. The definition of epistrophe is opposite to that of anaphora, which is the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.
Examples of epistrophe appear in Abraham Lincolnâs Gettysburg Address ( ââ¦and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.â), and in Lyndon B. Johnsonâs âWe Shall Overcomeâ speech (âThere is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem.