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anaphora

[uh-naf-er-uh] / əˈnæf ər ə /


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The study may also help inform linguistics theory concerning various forms of anaphora.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024

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 ● Apr. 15, 2022

Sermons, hymns and verses of scripture share many techniques with poetry: anaphora, repetition, metaphor, imagery, music.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2021

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 ● Jul. 24, 2019

For the anaphora of tu in hymns or solemn prayer, see the passages collected by Nisbet and Hubbard at Hor Carm I x 9 and by Tarrant at Sen Ag 311.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg

Kennedy and Sorensen, of course, weren’t thinking of anaphoras or assonance.

From Newsweek ● Nov. 2, 2010




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