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- adjective of or pertaining to anaphora.
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- adjective Of, or relating to, an
anaphora .
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- adjective relating to anaphora
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Examples
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In addition, the is motivated by the fact that the features have evidently received some prior mention in the text the so-called 'anaphoric' function of the definite article.
Archive 2008-12-01 DC 2008
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In addition, the is motivated by the fact that the features have evidently received some prior mention in the text the so-called 'anaphoric' function of the definite article.
On the, again DC 2008
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In the anaphoric rhythm of his first two and a half pages in the opening chapter, which moves from what three young boys wanted more of (food, noise, distraction, body-heat), to the moment they wanted less (less of everything but the silent morning and a hard-to-love-impossible-not-to mother asleep), "just this, just this," Torres sets us up for a novel that refuses to play by the rules.
Ru Freeman: Justin Torres: Give Us More Ru Freeman 2011
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In the anaphoric rhythm of his first two and a half pages in the opening chapter, which moves from what three young boys wanted more of (food, noise, distraction, body-heat), to the moment they wanted less (less of everything but the silent morning and a hard-to-love-impossible-not-to mother asleep), "just this, just this," Torres sets us up for a novel that refuses to play by the rules.
Ru Freeman: Justin Torres: Give Us More Ru Freeman 2011
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More natural still would be to substitute the second mention of ‘fire’ with an anaphoric pronoun: A fire broke out in New Town last night.
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David Copperfield's lament is given here with my further typographical highlights on the kinds of anaphoric returns and alphabetic reversals by which Gass is intrigued: From
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More natural still would be to substitute the second mention of ‘fire’ with an anaphoric pronoun: A fire broke out in New Town last night.
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The greatest extension of the period in English in relation to Spanish is seen in the capacity of English to construct a series of short and relatively simple sentences while incorporating repetitions and anaphoric references to maintain cohesion within the text.
The Extension of the Period and Links Between Sentences 2009
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Tu es fou... tu es fou: Derrida has given me an idea for anaphoric rhythm in a poem.
Derrida on the fear of writing Lemon Hound 2009
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An early proponent of the anaphoric view is Fred Sommers.
Names Cumming, Sam 2009
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