What is anaphora?

Answer 1

The purpose of Anaphora is drive a point home into the listener's (or reader's) brain through repetition.

It repeats the same word or words at the beginning of several successive phrases or sentences (as opposed to Antistrophe, which does it at the end).

Repeating it twice might be overlooked by the audience or just regarded as sloppy editing, so most users of Anaphora will repeat it at least 3 times (though some can repeat it a lot more, e.g. Churchill's use of 'We shall fight ...' and Martin Luther King's 'I believe ...'

It's possibly the most commonly used rhetorical device and is a favorite of President Obama's. Some examples of his would be:

"That means investments to create new jobs. That means resisting the walls of protectionism that stand in the way of growth. That means a change in our financial system, with new rules to prevent abuse and future crisis."

"For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life. For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and ploughed the hard earth. For us, theyfought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sahn."

"This is the price and the promise of citizenship. This is the source of our confidence - the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny. This is themeaning of our liberty and our creed."

Answer 2

Antistrophe (also known as epistrophe) is a rhetorical figure of speech that repeats the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences, (i.e. the direct opposite of Anaphora, which repeats them at the beginning).

It's usually used at the end of successive sentences, as in:

"It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: Yes, we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights: Yes, we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness: Yes, we can" - Barack Obama

BUT .... it can be used within a sentence. One of the most famous examples would be "government of the people, by the people and for the people" (Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address)

Answer 3

Anaphora is a rhetorical device which repeats the same word at the beginning of several clauses, phrases or sentences. It's very widely used by politicians, especially President Obama, who uses it regularly. An example would be:

"That means investments to create new jobs. That means resisting the walls of protectionism that stand in the way of growth. That means a change in our financial system, with new rules to prevent abuse and future crisis."

Answer 4

Anaphora is a literary technique used to emphasise a certain clause example: SO various, SO beautiful, SO new

Answer 5

Anaphora is the repetition of words in the beginning of a sentence or a paragraph. take this definition and put it into a sentence.

Answer 6

In this extract, the write uses hypophora "Was he going to stand up for all that is right and good? no, he wasn't".