cataphora
the practice in literature or rhetoric(= speech or writing intended to impress or persuade people) of repeating the same word at the start of several sentences to achieve an effect:
No poet has used anaphora more effectively than he does in this work, with every line beginning "Because".
Anaphora is a type of cohesive relation which points to an earlier reference in the text.
The choice of pronoun in anaphora was found to split along gender lines, with women writers much less likely to use "he" to refer back to an indeterminate gender.
Comparisons were made between children's comprehension of verb-phrase anaphora at different ages.
The repetition of "we" at the start of each sentence is anaphora.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistic terms & linguistic style
accentual
affricate
allophone
allophony
anaphor
contextualize
emphatic
entailment
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inflected language
philological
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polysemy
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Examples of anaphora

anaphora
The issues raised in this chapter are uniqueness, coreference, backward pronominalization and donkey anaphora.
First, the augmented ranking rule points to interesting new directions in understanding backward anaphora.
First it is not empirically tested that in cases of backward anaphora the antecedent is found in the immediate discourse.
Like inferencing, anaphora can be perceived as occurring on a continuum, involving greater or lesser cognitive activity, depending on both text-based and reader-based variables.
While this book contains a lot of material about intrasentential anaphora, there is virtually nothing about discourse anaphora.
The system lacked any other means of connecting individual sentences - even a rudimentary anaphora resolution was not available.
One of the heuristics incorporated in the new algorithm approximates resolution of definite anaphora.
It attempts to resolve anaphora (in its most general sense) locally within a discourse segment.
In sum, the corpus data suggest stable gender differences in anaphora.
The results indicate that gender was a factor in the pronoun selection in anaphora.
Extra information is provided by an anaphora resolution preprocessing step.
A system for anaphora resolution can make use of these symbols.
While the marking of anaphora should be applicable to other languages without too many problems, this seems to be less likely for the grammatical annotations.
A temporal anaphora resolution mechanism would be needed to determine that particular minute from the context, but our framework currently provides no such mechanism.
A detailed examination of examples of relational anaphora is beyond the scope of this paper.
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