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  2. Anaphora (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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    Anaphora serves the purpose of delivering an artistic effect to a passage. It is also used to appeal to the emotions of the audience in order to persuade, inspire, motivate and encourage them. [3] In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech, he uses anaphora by repeating "I have a dream" eight times throughout the speech. [4]

  3. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from straightforward language use or literal meaning to produce a rhetorical or intensified effect (emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, etc.). [1] [2] In the distinction between literal and figurative language, figures of

  4. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Anaphora – a succession of sentences beginning with the same word or group of words. Anastrophe – inversion of the natural word order. Anecdote – a brief narrative describing an interesting or amusing event. Antanaclasis – a figure of speech involving a pun, consisting of the repeated use of the same word, each time with different meanings.

  5. Anaphora (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, anaphora (/ ə ˈ n æ f ər ə /) is the use of an expression whose interpretation depends upon another expression in context (its antecedent).In a narrower sense, anaphora is the use of an expression that depends specifically upon an antecedent expression and thus is contrasted with cataphora, which is the use of an expression that depends upon a postcedent expression.

  6. Rhetorical device - Wikipedia

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    Irony is the figure of speech where the words of a speaker intends to express a meaning that is directly opposite of the said words. [3] [4] Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest - For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men - Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me:

  7. Anaphora - Wikipedia

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    Anaphora may refer to: Anaphora (rhetoric), a form of repetition; Anaphora (linguistics), a reference (e.g. pronoun use) relying on textual context;

  8. Lady Gaga Reveals Whether She Plans to Drop Her Stage Name - AOL

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    Related: Lady Gaga Says She and Fiancé Michael Polansky Have Spoken About Having Kids and She's 'Ready' to Be Humbled by It The 13-time Grammy winner previously teased the range of music her ...

  9. Logophoricity - Wikipedia

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    Although according to the originator of the term, logophoric pronouns are considered a type of anaphora, [2] and although it does embody a binding relation with an antecedent, logophoricity cannot be accounted for by Chomsky's Binding Theory as other anaphora may be, because of its necessity to take on the perspective of an individual external ...