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Definition: Anaphora |
AnaphoraNoun1. Using a pronoun or other pro-word instead of repeating a word. 2. Repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Anaphora \A*naph"o*ra\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from to carry up or back; to carry.]. (references) |
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Language | Reference to something that has already been mentioned through a process of substitution. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In rhetoric, anaphora is the repetition of the same few words at the beginning of several consecutive sentences for rhetorical effect.In linguistics, anaphora names the effect of one expression referring to another.
- 'We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, 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. We shall never surrender.' — Winston Churchill.
In the example:
The monkey ate the banana because it was hungry
"it" referring to the monkey is an example of anaphora.
Anaphora is defined by some linguists to only include references to preceeding text. Those linguists would define forward-references as Cataphora and call both effects together Endophora.
Another example of reference is Exophora, where the referent does not appear in the text, but instead in the real world.
Other linguists would define anaphora generically to include all of these referential effects.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Anaphora."
Synonym: AnaphoraSynonym: epanaphora (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Anaphora |
| English words defined with "anaphora": anaphoric ♦ symploce. (references) |
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| "Anaphora" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "Anaphora" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.83% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
anaphora | 10 |
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| Language | Translations for "anaphora"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | анафора. (various references) | |
Chinese | 指代法. (various references) | |
Danish | anaforisk funktion. (various references) | |
French | anaphore. (various references) | |
German | Anaphora, Anapher. (various references) | |
Greek | αναφορά (reference, report). (various references) | |
Italian | anafora (anaphoric reference). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 照応 (being in accordance with, correspondence). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょうおう (being in accordance with, correspondence). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anaphoraay.(various references) | |
Romanian | proscomidie (altar). (various references) | |
Spanish | anáfora. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | анафора. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "anaphora": anaphoras. (additional references) | |
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"Anaphora" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acampora, Annaghmore, anphora, Arahura, azahari. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "anaphora" (pronounced una"feru) |
| 3 | -f er u | amphora. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-h-n-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: anaphor. | |
-2 letters: orphan. | |
-3 letters: apron. | |
-4 letters: anoa, haar, harp, hoar, hora, horn, opah, para, phon, porn, prao, proa, roan. | |
-5 letters: aah, aha, ana, hao, hap, hon, hop, nah, nap, noh, nor, oar, ora, pah, pan, par, poh, pro, rah, ran, rap, rho. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-h-n-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: anaphoras. | |
+5 letters: anaphorically, anaphrodisiac. | |
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