Question

How do you use anaphora in a sentence?

Answer 1

Hint:
-Anaphora is a figure of speech employed in a sentence.
-The term "anaphora" can be traced from the Greek word that means "to carry up or back."
-The Psalms, which is a book of the Bible that contains many examples of anaphora, has played a role to influence later writers to use anaphora as a way of capturing the rhythms and structures of the Bible.

Complete answer:
Anaphora is a figure of speech in which words are replicated at the start of successive clauses, phrases or sentences. For example, Martin Luther King's renowned speech "I Have a Dream" contains anaphora which is clear through the lines "So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania..."

On the simplest level, writers use anaphora to emphasise a series of repeated words. More generally, anaphora can produce a variety of stylistic effects. It could:

Express a very strong feeling.
Create a rhythm in the text, whether that rhythm is pleasing, rousing, or implacable.
More clearly, merge two or more ideas through repeated phrases.
Make a phrase more memorable for the reader or listener.
Give the structure to a long list.

An anaphora must be used in a sentence by keeping in mind:
Think of what one wants to emphasize in a sentence.
Repeat that phrase/word at the start of each sentence.

For example:
Normal Sentence: People need to get up, make themselves heard, and make their country better!
Sentence with Anaphora: People need to get up! People have to make themselves heard! And people need to make their country better!
Repetition of “the people” serves to show the people as one, and to give them the feeling that they are personally responsible for making all the change.

Note:
i) Among the closest relatives of anaphora is the epistrophe, which is similar to anaphora, except that it is the duplication of one or more words at the latter part of successive sentences, clauses or sentences.
ii) The use of both anaphora and epistrophe at the same time creates a third figure of speech called a symploce.
iii) Anaphora is a major weapon for speech writers, because its replication can set a tone, rally a crowd, and assert attention on the main points that the speaker wants the listeners to put their attention on.