Meaning of anaphora | Babel Free

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1. anaphora (repetition of a phrase used for emphasis)
2. The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis.
   countable, rhetoric, uncountable
3. An expression that refers to a preceding expression.
   countable, uncountable
4. the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses or clauses, as the repetition of Blessed in the Beatitudes. Cf. epanaphora, epiphora. — anaphoral, adj.
   Blessed
5. The most solemn part of the Divine Liturgy or the Mass during which the offerings of bread and wine are consecrated as body and blood of Christ.
   countable, uncountable
6. Repetition of a word or words at the beginnings of successive clauses.
7. The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs; for example, "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills" (Winston S. Churchill).
8. Linguistics The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer to the same person or object as another unit, usually a noun. The use of her to refer to the person named by Anne in the sentence Anne asked Edward to pass her the salt is an example of anaphora.
   Linguistics
9. (Grammar) grammar the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word previously used in the same discourse. In the sentence John wrote the essay in the library but Peter did it at home, both did and it are examples of anaphora. Compare cataphora, exophoric
   grammar
10. (Rhetoric) rhetoric the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
    rhetoric
11. the use of a word as a regular grammatical substitute for a preceding word or group of words, as the use of it and do in I know it and they do, too.
    it
12. repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive phrases, verses, clauses, or sentences, as in Shakespeare's “This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.”
13. n (Liter, Gram) → Anapher f
    n

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Examples

“Anaphora elegantly begins With the same word or phrase successive lines.”

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