anaphora
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The study pinpointed how well people process and reproduce sentences involving "anaphora."
From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024
Sermons, hymns and verses of scripture share many techniques with poetry: anaphora, repetition, metaphor, imagery, music.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
