anaphora
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The study may also help inform linguistics theory concerning various forms of anaphora.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
Throughout the book, Evans uses anaphora in conjunction with evocative imagery.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2021
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 ● Jul. 28, 2020
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 Akrigg, Mark Bear
Kennedy and Sorensen, of course, weren’t thinking of anaphoras or assonance.
From Newsweek ● Nov. 2, 2010
Vocabulary lists containing anaphora
Poetry: Literary Devices
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Rhetoric
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 2
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