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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀναφορά (anaphorá, “a carrying back”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + φέρω (phérō, “I carry”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ænəˈfɔɹə/, /ənˈæfəɹə/
Noun
anaphora (countable and uncountable, plural anaphoras or anaphora)
| Examples (rhetoric)
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- They didn't speak. They didn't stand. They didn't even look up when I came in.
- “Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!”
- Shakespeare, King John (II i.)
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| Examples (expression referring to a preceding expression)
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- That's John's car. He won't want to see you sitting on it .
- John had a drink. So did Mark.
- John had been feeling rather dehydrated. Mark was even more so .
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- (rhetoric) The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis.
- Antonyms: epiphora, epistrophe
1835, L Langley, “ Anaphora.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, , Doncaster, South Yorkshire: C. White, , →OCLC, page 73:Anaphora elegantly begins
With the same word or phrase successive lines.
- (linguistics) An expression that refers to a preceding expression.
- Antonym: cataphora
- Hypernym: endophora
- Coordinate terms: exophora, homophora
- (Christianity) 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.
- Synonym: Eucharistic Prayer
- Meronyms: epiclesis, preface, Sanctus, sursum corda
Usage notes
- In linguistics, the terms anaphor and anaphora are sometimes used interchangeably, although in some theories, a distinction is made between them. See the Wikipedia article.
Derived terms
Translations
repetition of a phrase used for emphasis
linguistics: An expression that can refer to virtually any referent
linguistics: expression that refers to another expression
See also
Noun
anaphora
- plural of anaphor
Further reading
anaphora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 