Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub - Poetics:  A little repetition
- anaphora   (posted by sarahsouthwest)

"So what is anaphora?"

This is what Wikipedia says:  anaphora (Greek: ἀναφορά, “carrying back”) is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis

Here is an 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, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…

                       ~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities~

Pick a repeating verb:

remember
dream
eat
choose
love
fear
hope
paint
lose


She remembers the day they met.
He remembers it differently.
She remembers wind, a metallic sky.
He remembers a warm, sunny day.
She remembers his chocolate-puddled eyes.
He remembers her long auburn hair.
She remembers him wearing a pale blue sweater.
He remembers the sweater as minty green.
They remember how quickly they fell in love.

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