ANAPHORA

Repetition of beginnings

Example:

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"

Arrangement by reversal of order

Example:

"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."

Repetition in different senses

Example:

"And there's bars on the corners and bars on the heart."

Repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

Example:

"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us."

Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

Example:

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."

Omission of conjunctions from clauses

Example:

"He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac."

Arrangement by ascending importance

Example:

"It's a well hit ball, it's a long drive, it might be, it could be, it IS . . . a home run."

Repetition of ideas in inverted order

Example:

"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."

Omission

Example:

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

Addition by correction(sometimes form of parenthesis)

Example:

"Maybe there is a beast. . . . What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us."

Repetition immediately

Example:

"I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly."

Asking a question to affirm or deny a point

Example:

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

Repetition of grammatical forms

Example:

"It takes a licking, but it keeps on ticking!"

Addition of "pop-up" idea

Example: "The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation."

Addition of conjunctions

Example:"[I]t is respectable to have no illusions--and safe--and profitable--and dull."

Omission of a verb from parallel clauses

Example:

"He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men."