Complete the 12 sentences below. Choose the best answer for each one.
1Because each clause begins with “We will,” the line “We will rebuild, we will recover, we will remember” is an example of ...............
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"Anaphora" is repetition at the beginning of successive clauses; epistrophe repeats at the end.
2In “They marched for justice, they argued for justice, they suffered for justice,” the repeated phrase marks ............... rather than anaphora.
Wrong!
"Epistrophe" is the correct term because the repeated phrase comes at the end of each clause, not the beginning.
3The mayor’s “Never again shall we ignore the river. Never again shall we neglect the levees” has an ............... pattern.
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The pattern is "anaphoric" because the repeated wording opens each sentence.
4The sentence “If we hesitate, if we bargain, if we surrender, we lose the treaty” creates anaphora through repetition of ...............
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Anaphora depends on repeated "opening words" in successive clauses or sentences.
5“The judge will be judged by the judgment she delivers” illustrates ..............., not anaphora.
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"Polyptoton" repeats related forms of the same word; anaphora would require the same opening wording to recur.
6When the witness says, “No records, no receipts, no witnesses,” the force comes chiefly from ............... rather than asyndeton.
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"Anaphora" is signalled by the repeated initial “No” in successive phrases.
7In “The proposal failed because it was underfunded,” the word “it” is a case of ..............., not rhetorical repetition.
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"Pronominal reference" is meant here because “it” points back to a noun; rhetorical anaphora is repeated initial wording.
8To turn three separate policy claims into anaphora, the editor should ............... in each successive sentence.
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To create anaphora, the writer must "repeat the initial phrase" at the start of successive units.
9A passage can be called anaphoric only if the recurrence falls ............... of successive clauses or sentences.
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Anaphora requires the repeated words to appear "at the beginning" of successive clauses or sentences.
10“What we need is patience; what we need is evidence; what we need is courage” uses ............... rather than anadiplosis.
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"Anaphora" fits because the same phrase starts successive clauses; anadiplosis repeats the end of one unit at the start of the next.
11In “calm, clear, and careful counsel,” the repetition is ............... rather than anaphoric.
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The sequence is "alliterative" because “calm,” “clear,” and “careful” repeat an initial sound, not a whole opening phrase.
12In the testimony “I have seen the files, I have seen the invoices, I have seen the threats,” the repeated opening makes the structure ...............
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"Sustained anaphora" is present because the same opening phrase is repeated across a series of parallel clauses.
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- Because each clause begins with “We will,” the line “We will rebuild, we will recover, we will remember” is an example of anaphora.
- In “They marched for justice, they argued for justice, they suffered for justice,” the repeated phrase marks epistrophe rather than anaphora.
- The mayor’s “Never again shall we ignore the river. Never again shall we neglect the levees” has an anaphoric pattern.
- The sentence “If we hesitate, if we bargain, if we surrender, we lose the treaty” creates anaphora through repetition of opening words.
- “The judge will be judged by the judgment she delivers” illustrates polyptoton , not anaphora.
- When the witness says, “No records, no receipts, no witnesses,” the force comes chiefly from anaphora rather than asyndeton.
- In “The proposal failed because it was underfunded,” the word “it” is a case of pronominal reference , not rhetorical repetition.
- To turn three separate policy claims into anaphora, the editor should repeat the initial phrase in each successive sentence.
- A passage can be called anaphoric only if the recurrence falls at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.
- “What we need is patience; what we need is evidence; what we need is courage” uses anaphora rather than anadiplosis.
- In “calm, clear, and careful counsel,” the repetition is alliterative rather than anaphoric.
- In the testimony “I have seen the files, I have seen the invoices, I have seen the threats,” the repeated opening makes the structure sustained anaphora.