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)
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 a ...
, a reference (e.g. pronoun use) relying on textual context
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Anaphora (liturgy)
The Anaphora is the most solemn part of the Divine Liturgy, or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, a thanksgiving prayer by virtue of which the offerings of bread and wine are believed to be consecrated as the body and blood of Christ. This is the us ...
, 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
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