(n.) A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.
Example Sentences:
(1) The verb phrase (VP) anaphora is a commonly used construction in English in which part of a sentence, including the verb, is replaced or deleted.
(2) They in fact support a universal structure dependence in children's hypotheses about directionality of anaphora.
(3) The implications of these findings for theories of anaphora resolution and figurative language comprehension are discussed.
(4) No significant age differences were found on microlinguistic measures, including syntactic complexity and syntactic and lexical production errors, and there were also no age differences in the use of lexical cohesive ties, such as anaphora.
(5) The discussion focuses on the variable roles of speaker mood, plausibility, and pronoun anaphora in supporting inferences about a speaker's intended meaning and on the selective nature of RHD patients' impairment in this domain.
(6) The present study investigated comprehension of four types of VP anaphora constructions.
(7) Greater dementia severity among the SDAT subjects was associated with marked difficulties in accessing the mental lexicon (increased use of empty words, indefinite anaphora, and pronouns).
(8) Elsewhere we have argued on the basis of cross linguistic studies of directionality effects on anaphora in child language, that there is no universal 'forward directionality preference (FDP)'; rather such a preference is linked to languages with specific grammatical properties.
Epistrophe
Definition:
(n.) A figure in which successive clauses end with the same word or affirmation; e. g., "Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I."
Example Sentences:
(1) The material consists of 71 cases with basilar impression, 8 cases with hypoplasia or absence of the odontoid process, and 7 cases with a congenital atlanto-epistropheal dislocation.
(2) C2 entrapment by the atlanto-epistrophic ligament is discussed in reference to other C2 lesions causing occipital pain.
(3) The condition presents with the following radiological patterns: 1) clear-cut erosions of the articular surfaces, especially in the distal interphalangeal joints of the hands and in the metatarso-phalangeal joints of the feet, with symmetrical distribution (not necessarily); 2) osteolytic punched-out areas in the epiphyseal spongiosa, ranging in size from 1 mm to over 1 cm; 3) no osteoporosis, no osteo-proliferative or periosteal reactions, not even in the presence of large osteoarticular destructions; 4) frequent atlanto-epistropheal subluxation; 5) articular ankylosis at the sacroiliac joints only.
(4) Symptoms were relieved, and C2 sensory function restored by releasing a hypertrophied atlanto-epistrophic ligament entrapping the C2 root and ganglion.