Repetition

What is anaphora?

• repetition of a phrase at the end of sentences

• repetition of a phrase at the beginning of sentences

• repetition of a phrase in the middle of sentences

• repetition of a phrase in a direct row

How is anaphora different from epistrophe?

• Epistrophe is less compelling

• Anaphora is typically more serious

• Epistrophe is at the end of sentences

• Epistrophe is in the middle of sentences

Which phrases are examples of anaphora in the following passage?

'Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness'.

• let us fight

• to do away with

• all men’s happiness

• both a and b

What is the definition of Epizeuxis?

• The repetition of a word or very short phrase one right after the other

• Use of opposites to compare

• Antithesis

What is the definition of antanaclasis?

• The repetition of a word in a sentence; each time, the word has a different meaning

• The repetition of consonant sounds in a sentence

• The repetition of vowel sounds in a sentence

• The repetition of words at the beginning and the end of the same sentence.

Advanced questions:

A writer may use antanaclasis to be witty or memorable. What is another reason that a writer may choose to use antanaclasis?

• To emphasize a word that is important to the overall theme or idea of what is being written

• To create a consistent rhythm in the sentence

• To confuse the reader

• To ask the reader a question

In Benjamin Franklin's quote 'We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately,' what is the definition of the second repetition of the word 'hang?'

• To be executed by hanging

• To stick together

• To hang something from a hook

• To go surfing

PART A.

'The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep' - Robert Frost

Identify the repetition

• Anaphora

• Antanaclasis

• Epiphora

• Epizeuxis

PART B

What is the emotive effect of the second 'miles to go before I sleep'

• No effect, it was random

• The writer was falling asleep

• To emphasise the 'miles' of life before 'sleep' (death)

• Rhythm

'Alone, alone, all, all alone,

Alone on a wide wide sea!

And never a saint took pity on

My soul in agony' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Identify the repetition

• Anaphora

• Antanaclasis

• Epizeuxis

• Epiphora