anaphora

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (3)  · 
“
How many even know the meaning of anaphora, antimetabole or litotes?

View all »
Definitions (8)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs; for example, "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills” (Winston S. Churchill).
  2. noun Linguistics The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer back to another unit, as the use of her to refer to Anne in the sentence Anne asked Edward to pass her the salt.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (20)

  • How many even know the meaning of anaphora, antimetabole or litotes? —  The Chicago Blog
  • In particular, anaphora is often possible if a double negation intervenes between antecedent and anaphoric element, and also if the antecedent not only occurs in the first part of a disjunction but also within the scope of a negation, while the anaphoric element is in the second part of the same disjunction. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Gregory Ward (Linguistics), with interests in pragmatics, reference / anaphora; —  Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
  • Repetition, particularly in the form of anaphora - where a phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive lines - is another of the prime tools of political oratory and one that Obama revels in. —  Andrew Lark
  • TV ... TV.= 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 311 127. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 577 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Late Latin, from Greek, from anapherein, to bring back : ana-, ana- + pherein, to carry; see bher-1 in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Latin, from Greek ἀναφορά, a coming up, ascension, a bringing up, a reference, recourse, an offering, from ἀναφέρειν, bring up, bring back, refer, pour forth, offer, etc., from ἀνά, up, back, + φέρειν, carry, bear, = English bear.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ænˈæfərə/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

liveliness · incredibly · pet · abundance · amenable

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

eu oi oìa u ou e u oìa · the octopi are dry · Kansas City · spell it rite · put it in your pocket