One always feels a bit sheepish for failing to know the meaning of a word one thinks one should know, but there's no substitute for buckling down and learning it. Such is the word "anaphora" which I learned is pronounced "ah-NAF-oh-rah." It's meaning, I learned, is
A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
By building toward a climax, anaphora can create a strong emotional effect. Adjective: anaphoric.
Examples:
"Sir Walter Raleigh. Good food. Good cheer. Good times." (slogan of the Sir Walter Raleigh Inn Restaurant, Maryland)
"We saw the bruised children of these fathers clump onto our school bus, we saw the abandoned children huddle in the pews at church, we saw the stunned and battered mothers begging for help at our doors." (Scott Russell Sanders, "Under the Influence," 1989)
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
(Rick Blaine in Casablanca)
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans,we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." (Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, June 4, 1940)