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Writing Devices > Rhetoric > Anaphora v1.1

created Mar 3rd 2021, 14:31 by O.E. Soriano


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Writing Devices - Rhetoric  
 
Anaphora
Examples
 
Effect: a single anaphoric word to create a pleasant sounding effect  
- For he purrs in thankfulness, when God tells him he's a good Cat.      For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.      For every house is incomplete without him and a blessing is lacking in the spirit. - Christopher Smart.
- Tyger! Tyger! burning bright       In the forests of the night - William Blake
- What the hammer? what the chain?      In what furnace was thy brain?      What the anvil? what dread grasp      Dare its deadly terrors clasp? - William Blake
 
Effect: an anaphoric phrase to teach or to drill in the first phrase or word, even if the listener forgets the rest  
- By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future. By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff. - Hebrews 11:20-21
- I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. - Martin Luther King
- I'm sick of bitches shakin' asses     I'm sick of talkin' about blunts     Sick of Versace glasses     Sick of slang     Sick of half-ass awards shows     Sick of name brand clothes     Sick of R&B bitches over bullshit tracks     Cocaine and crack     Which brings sickness to blacks     Sick of swole head rappers     With their sicker-than raps     Clappers and gats     Makin' the whole sick world collapse     The facts are gettin' sick     Even sicker perhaps (sicker perhaps)     I stick a bush to make a bundle to escape this synapse - De La Soul
 
Effect: an anaphoric phrase to convey the resolve of the speaker even if the task is laborious
- I will go by the forest, I will go by the mountain. - Victor Marie Hugo
- 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
- We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the German won't not be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the German will be sickened by us, and the German will talk about us, and the German will fear us. And when the German closes their eyes at night and they're tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us they are tortured with. Sound good? - Quentin Tarantino, Inglorious Basterds  
 
Effect: to use anaphora to set up a series of reasons that then argue for a single conclusion  
- If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   Or walk with Kings -- nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,  If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute   With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,   Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,       And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling
 
Effect: to make reader laugh by setting up expectations
- By all rights this book never should have been written. By all rights, I should be dead. And thereby hangs the tale. I am writing this book from a hospice. But being in the hospice didn't work out exactly the way I had expected. By all rights I should have finished my time here in mid-March 2006--at least, that's when Medicare stopped paying. - Art Buchwald (layered with tricolon)
 

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