Anaphora may refer to:
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Anaphora (rhetoric)
In rhetoric, an anaphora (, "carrying back") is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis. In contrast, an epistrophe (or epiphora) is repeating w ...
, a form of repetition
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Anaphora (linguistics), a reference (e.g. pronoun use) relying on textual context
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Anaphora (liturgy), part of Christianity's Eucharistic liturgy
See also
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Anaphoric macro An anaphoric macro is a type of programming macro that deliberately captures some form supplied to the macro which may be referred to by an ''anaphor'' (an expression referring to another). Anaphoric macros first appeared in Paul Graham's '' On Li ...
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Anaphoric reference
In linguistics, deixis (, ) is the use of general words and phrases to refer to a specific time, place, or person in context, e.g., the words ''tomorrow'', ''there'', and ''they''. Words are deictic if their semantic meaning is fixed but their de ...
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Anaphoric pronoun
In linguistics, anaphora () is the use of an expression whose interpretation depends upon another expression in context (its antecedent or postcedent). In a narrower sense, anaphora is the use of an expression that depends specifically upon an ...
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