anaphora
noun/əˈnæfərə/
Frequency rank: #19,777 most common English word
Meaning
A rhetorical device in which the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive clauses or lines.
Example sentence
The speech was full of anaphora, with the phrase 'We will fight' repeated at the start of every line.
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