Anaphora

=ANAPHORA=

An anaphora is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses.
 * Definition: **


 * Purpose: **
 * **By using an anaphora the author is building towards the climax, and can create a strong emotional effect on the audience. **
 * **Emphasizes on the point being made **


 * Examples: **
 * Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech **


 * 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! **


 * I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification"--one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. **


 * I have a dream today! **


 * I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. **

** Inglourious Basterds **

We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brother we leave behind us
 * And the Germans** won't not be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives.
 * And the German** will be sickened by us,
 * and the German** will talk about us,
 * and the German** will fear us.
 * And when the German** closes their eyes at night and they're tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us they are tortured with. Sound good?

**Essays of E.B. White: The Ring of Time** The South of the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself **in the** scene: **in the** sound of sea and sand, **in the** singing shell, **in the** heat of sun and sky, **in the** sultriness of the gentle hours, **in the** siesta, **in the** stir of birds and insects. (Page 182-183)