| Definition: Emphasizing a concept by repeating the same word or phrase at the beginning of several consecutive utterances. |
| Example:
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. (George W. Bush) |
| Etymology: The word means "carrying back" in Greek. |
OED: The word's first OED citation is from 1589: "Anaphora, or the Figure of Report … as thus: To thinke on death it is a miserie, To think on life it is a vanitie: To thinke on the world verily it is, To thinke that heare man hath no perfit blisse."
(Puttenham English Poesie (Arb.) 208) |