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Poet's repetition for effect
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anaphora
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In linguistics , anaphora is the use of an expression whose interpretation depends upon another expression in context (its antecedent or postcedent). In a narrower sense, anaphora is the use of an expression that depends specifically upon an antecedent ...
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n. 1 (context rhetoric English) The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis. 2 (context linguistics English) An expression that can refer to virtually any referent, the specific referent being defined ...
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n. using a pronoun or other pro-word instead of repeating a word repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses [syn: epanaphora ]
Usage examples of anaphora.
The tricolon with anaphora is a strong formal device, appropriate to the sounds of public lamentation.
This device of beginning successive lines with the same word is called anaphora, in case you wanted to know.
The tricolon with anaphora is a strong formal device, appropriate to the sounds of public lamentation.
With themes—one window held nothing but drinking vessels, from commemorative teacups to the small mended pottery anaphoras of an archaeological dig, while the next one had figurines from all over the world, all less than two inches in height.