Often used in political speeches and occasionally in prose and poetry, anaphora is the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines to create a sonic effect. [..]

Words or phrases like pronouns are anaphora when they point backwards to something earlier in the text: Helen needed the book and asked me to hurry up with it. Here, it is anaphoric because it refers [..]

"repetition of a word or phrase in successive clauses," 1580s, from Latin, from Greek anaphora "reference," literally "a carrying back," from anapherein "to carry ba [..]

Repitition of the same word or words at the beginning of consecutive syntactic units.

("carrying back") - the repetition of the first word or a word-group in several successive sentences, clauses or phrases. "How many days will finish up the year,

 – repetition of word or words at the beginning of lines or stanzas

The repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences, commonly in conjunction with climax and with parallelism: To think on death is misery,/ To think on life it is a vanity,/ To think on the world verily it is,/ To think that here man hath no perfect bliss. --Peacham

noun. with regard to language, the use of a term in effort to reference another term that was used previously- generally employed in order to avoid repeating the same term

Anaphora is coreference of one expression with its antecedent. The antecedent provides the information necessary for the expression’s interpretation.   This is often understood as an expression “refer [..]

The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines e.g. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman.  

(n) using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier(n) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France; we shall fight on [..]

(rhetoric) The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis. (linguistics) An expression that can refer to virtually any referent, the specific refer [..]

You've probably heard this one before: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch o [..]