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 repeatin ...
, 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). In a narrower sense, anaphora is the use of an expression that depends specifically upon an antecedent expr ...
, a reference (e.g. pronoun use) relying on textual context
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Anaphora (liturgy)
The Anaphora (), Eucharistic Prayer, or Great Thanksgiving, is a portion of the Christian liturgy of the Eucharist in which, through a prayer of thanksgiving, the elements of bread and wine are consecrated. The prevalent historical Roman Rite for ...
, 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 Lis ...
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Anaphoric reference
In linguistics, deixis () is the use of words or phrases to refer to a particular time (e.g. ''then''), place (e.g. ''here''), or person (e.g. ''you'') relative to the context of the utterance. Deixis exists in all known natural languagesLyons, J ...
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Anaphoric pronoun
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