anaphora

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anaphora /əˈnaf(ə)rə/

▶noun

• 1 Grammar the use of a word referring back to a word used earlier in a text or conversation, to avoid repetition, for example the pronouns he, she, it, and they and the verb do in I like it and so do they. Compare with cataphora.

• 2 Rhetoric the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

• 3 Christian Church the part of the Eucharist which contains the consecration, anamnesis, and communion.

– derivatives
anaphoric /ˌanəˈfɒrɪk/ adjective,
anaphorically adverb.

– origin C16: via L. from Gk, ‘repetition’, from ana- ‘back’ + pherein ‘to bear’.