Anaphora Definition
ə-năfər-ə
noun
The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs; for example,
American Heritage
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses, lines of verse, etc.
Webster's New World
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.
American Heritage
(rhetoric) The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis.
Wiktionary
(linguistics) An expression that can refer to virtually any referent, the specific referent being defined by context.
Wiktionary
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Origin of Anaphora
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Late Latin from Greek from anapherein to bring back ana- ana- pherein to carry bher-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Ancient Greek ἀναφορά (anaphora, “a carrying back”), from ἀνά (ana, “up”) + φέρω (pherō, “I carry”).
From Wiktionary
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