I though it would be pretty awesome for us to have an AP word of the week. These are words, literary devices, which we are going to encounter during the AP English Exam. & It will serve as reinforcement for what we already know!
So for the first word, let's start easy.
WE SHOULD ALL KNOW THIS!, IF YOU DO NOT, THEN HEY! YOU WILL LEARN SOMETHING KNEW
ANAPHORA
the sentence below is a perfect example of anaphora, see if you can figure out what it is.
"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun."
You Guess it!
Definition: A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the start of successive clauses.
Anaphora can be the repetition at the start of clauses OR sentences. Great example. Where is the passage from?
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