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Device used in "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
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anaphora
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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 ]
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In rhetoric , an anaphora (, "carrying back") is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis . In contrast, an epistrophe (or epiphora) is repeating words at ...
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.