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Anaphora

Anaphora. Claire Mongenas. Definition - The repetition of a word or words at the beginning of a phrase, clause, or sentence. Most often seen in a conjunction with a climax and with parallelism. Ex. To think on death it is a misery, To think on life it is a vanity;

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Anaphora

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  1. Anaphora Claire Mongenas

  2. Definition - The repetition of a word or words at the beginning of a phrase, clause, or sentence. Most often seen in a conjunction with a climax and with parallelism. Ex. To think on death it is a misery, To think on life it is a vanity; To think on the world verily it is, To think that here man hath no perfect bliss. --Peacham

  3. Anaphora can be used in any way • Question • Negations • Hypotheses • Conclusions • Subordinating conjunctions • The writer must proceed with caution as to try not to make it sound rhetorical • Ex. Will he read the book? Will he learn what it has to teach him? Will he live according to what he has learned?

  4. Adverbs and preposition can also be anaphora, when worded correctly. • Ex. They are masters who instruct us without rod or ferule, without angry words, without clothes or money. --Richard de Bury • She pets her cat very softly, very slowly, very smoothly

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