| Front | anaphora |
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| Back | rhetorical device repeating the first word or words John of Gaunts eulogy on England in Shakespeare's Richard 2 ( this royal throne of kings, this scept's red isle, this ..... Dickens bleak house (fog......fog......fog In rhetoric, an anaphora (Greek: ἀναφορά, "carrying back") is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis.[2] In contrast, an epistrophe (or epiphora) is repeating words at the clauses' ends. The combination of anaphora and epistrophe results in symploce |
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