ANAPHORA

RHETORIC

• A repetition of words at the beginning of two or more verses, clauses, or sentences

EXAMPLES

• When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.
• Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
• It was the night we got answers, it was the night we could finally breath, it was the night we got closure.

EXAMPLES IN LITERATURE

• “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. 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, Jr., Washington, D.C., 28 August 1963

EXAMPLES IN lITERATURE

• William Wordsworth in “Tintern Abbey”: “Five years have passed; Five summers, with the length of Five long winters! and again I hear these waters…”
• Where is anaphora used?

EVERYDAY uSE VS THE ELEMENTS OF sTYLE

• "...shaping people's thinking, changing their minds, or influencing their actions..."
• Chapter one of Everyday use focuses on the importance of rhetoric and how it can impact and change writing.
• However, the Elements of Style, emphasizes on concise writing.
• "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts."

Do you think up the use of anaphora is effective and a good rhetorical device, or useless, because needless words should be omitted?

SIGNIFICANCE IN wRITING

• Anaphora is one of the oldest literary devices and is most commonly found in poetry. It is used to create rhythm and emphasis in a poetic fashion.

SOURCES

• "Anaphora." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 04 Oct. 2015. .
• "Anaphora." Literarydevices.net. Literary Devices, n.d. Web. 4 Oct. 2015. .

SOURCES

• Booth, George. "Everyday Use: Rhetoric in Our Lives." N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Aug. 2015. .
• Strunk, William, and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.