Rhet. [L. anaphora, a. Gr. ἀναφορά a carrying back, f. ἀνά back + φέρειν to bear.] The repetition of the same word or phrase in several successive clauses.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 208. Anaphora, or the Figure of Report … as thus: To thinke on death it is a miserie, To think on life it is a vanitie: To thinke on the world verily it is, To thinke that heare man hath no perfit blisse.
1655. Gouge, Comm. Hebr. xi. 24. Three times by an elegant Anaphora is this phrase, ‘by faith,’ used.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., Anaphora … such is this of the psalmist: The voice of the Lord is powerful: the voice of the Lord is full of majesty: the voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness.
1880. in Roby, Sch. Lat. Gram., § 946.
