anaphora

[uh-naf-er-uh] / əˈnæf ər ə /

NOUN

figure of speech

Synonyms

WEAK

adumbration allegory alliteration allusion analogue analogy anticlimax antistrophe antithesis aposiopesis apostrophe asyndeton bathos comparison conceit device echoism ellipsis euphemism euphuism exaggeration expression flourish flower hyperbole image imagery irony litotes malapropism manner of speaking metaphor metonymy onomatopoeia ornament oxymoron parable paradox parallel personification proteron rhetoric sarcasm satire simile stylistic device synecdoche trope tropology turn of phrase understatement way of speaking

Example Sentences

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Mr. Muldoon uses anaphora — the repeated use of the word “every” — to pulverizing effect.

From New York Times

The Hill doesn’t tell us exactly what Miss Clinton said, except that single word “dismantle,” which turns out to have been an anaphora.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the following two paragraphs Cuomo used anaphora within anaphora, which is tough to pull off.

From Forbes

The copywriters have taken clichés, and added a toxic combination of anaphora and assonance.

From The Guardian

In a kind of “anaphora mining,” we combine the words, their parts of speech and something of their semantic content to identify common rhetorical structures.

From New York Times

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