 | Frank Byron Jevons - 1892 - 528 pages
...1 and all the " figures of thought." 2 Under the " figures of speech " are included asyndeton, the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive sentences (anaphora), the assonance of whole words "AXiM>$ trorafjLou. Blass puts these words into... | |
 | 1952 - 418 pages
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 | Ambroise ((saint ;), Sister Mary Dolorosa Mannix, Mary Dolorosa Mannix - 1925 - 190 pages
...figure in which, for emphasis, an author denies his own statement ; and of an imperfect anaphora, the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or sentences, a favorite device of the Eoman orator; and of homoioptoton, a figure... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - 1926 - 612 pages
...figure in which, for emphasis, an author denies his own statement ; and of an imperfect anaphora, the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or sentences, a favorite device of the Roman orator; and of homoioptoton, a figure... | |
 | 1948 - 436 pages
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 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...times. Other constantly used figures are terminal or medial rhyme (true and slant), antithesis, anaphora (repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive poetic lines), epizeuxis (repetition of the same word immediately, with no intermission), and epanalepsis... | |
 | Paul M. Waszink - 1988 - 346 pages
...Curtius' definition of it is important: "An example of a figure of language is anaphora, that is, the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive clauses". Reference is made by him, in this connection, to two verse-lines by Schiller: 'Sei mir gegrusst, mein... | |
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An example of a figure of language is anaphora, that is, the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive clauses". 
