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Anaphora By: Grace Lehman Anaphora?. Anaphora:  Repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. 

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1 Anaphora By: Grace Lehman Anaphora?

2 Anaphora:  Repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.  Commonly in conjunction with climax and with parallelism. Definition

3 Statement: In English class, students must follow directions, must turn in their homework, and must be on time. Questions: Will he go the game? Will he get a homerun? Will he win? o The phrase, must, is repeated before the phrase. o The phrase, will he, is repeated before the phrase. Even though there are three sentences, it’s still an anaphora. Example

4 Why use anaphora?  They can be used with: 1. Questions 2. Negations 3. Hypotheses 4. Conclusions 5. Subordinating conjunctions  It uses repetition and redundancy to ensure that the reader will get the obvious statement in which you’re making. Why use it?


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