Sunday, 26 April 2009

The Art of Anaphora

Anaphora is a technique of rhetoric involving the emphasis of words by repeating them at the beginning of clauses.

"We shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans" (Churchill)

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" (Dickens)

Contrastingly, epistrophe (or epistropha) is repeating words at clauses ends.

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