| 单词 | anaphora |
| 释义 | anaphora[ uh-naf-er-uh ] / əˈnæf ər ə / SEE SYNONYMS FOR anaphora ON THESAURUS.COM nounAlso called epanaphora. Rhetoric. repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.Compare epistrophe (def. 1), symploce. Grammar. the use of a word as a regular grammatical substitute for a preceding word or group of words, as the use of it and do in I know it and he does too.Compare cataphora. Sometimes Anaphora .Eastern Church.
Origin of anaphoraFirst recorded in 1580–90; from Late Latin, from Greek: “a bringing back, repeating,” equivalent to ana- ana- + -phora, akin to phérein “to carry, bring”; cf. -phore, -phorous OTHER WORDS FROM anaphoraa·naph·o·ral, adjectivepre·a·naph·o·ral, adjectiveWords nearby anaphoraananthous, anapaest, anapest, anaphase, anaphia, anaphora, anaphoresis, anaphoria, anaphoric, anaphrodisia, anaphrodisiac Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for anaphoraanaphora / (əˈnæfərə) / noungrammar the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word previously used in the same discourse. In the sentence John wrote the essay in the library but Peter did it at home, both did and it are examples of anaphoraCompare cataphora, exophoric rhetoric the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses Word Origin for anaphoraC16: via Latin from Greek: repetition, from anapherein, from ana- + pherein to bear Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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