anaphora
Example Sentences
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The study may also help inform linguistics theory concerning various forms of anaphora.
From Science Daily
The poetry seems to perform hypnosis, the found rhymes and assonance and anaphora enacting an enchantment, a bewitchery; it seems to be giving subconscious advice.
From New York Times
Sermons, hymns and verses of scripture share many techniques with poetry: anaphora, repetition, metaphor, imagery, music.
From Washington Post
In rhetoric, the name for the repetition of an opening phrase is anaphora, and if you Google the word, several sites direct you to Marin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
From The Guardian
Mueller’s verbal dryness, amid the juicy statements, florid grandstanding, and indignant anaphora of his questioners, was like the rustling pages of an old book.
From The New Yorker
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