Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 12 AIL 1121 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Anaphora as a Rhetorical Device
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The idea
Anaphora, repeating the same words at the start of successive clauses, appeared in unit eleven describing Gradgrind. In nonfiction it does a different job: it binds a list of claims into one insistence and makes a passage sound spoken. The glossary names it nowhere.
In practice
The same device, a different job.
Where people slip
Descriptive there, persuasive here.
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