Post Tagged with: "Anaphora"

• January 30, 2021 / Posts

  Polysyndeton: there’s a whole in the bucket.

  Continuing on in our adventure of discovering new vistas of Polysyndeton, we note that examples of this figure abound throughout scripture. Neither the Old nor the New Testament are at a loss for examples. In fact, it is one of the very first figures God uses in His word. We […]

   
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• January 16, 2021 / Posts

  Epibole: Repetition at irregular intervals.

  Epibole (Overlaid Repetition) (page 346) https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029277047#page/n401/mode/2up “E-pi’-bo-lee is from ἐπιβάλλειν (epiballein), to cast upon. The figure is so named, because the same sentence or phrase is cast upon or laid upon (like layers or courses of bricks) several successive paragraphs. It thus differs from Anaphora (q.v.) in that it consists […]

   
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• January 9, 2021 / Posts

  Anaphora

  https://archive.org/details/cu31924029277047/page/n253/mode/2up Page 199 ” A~naph’-o-ra, from two Greek words, ἀνά (ana), again, and φέρω (pherō), to bring or carry. It means a carrying back, reference, or repeating over again. This figure is so-called because it is the repeating of the same word at the beginning of successive clauses: thus adding […]

   
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• May 10, 2017 / General Information

  Figurative vs. Literal part 1- Anaphora

  Figurative vs. Literal part 1 By Ken Rossoll on Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 4:26am Figuratively Speaking by Ken Rossoll Figurative vs. Literal part 1 Have you ever wondered, while reading the Bible, whether a verse or section of verses could be taken literally? Perhaps the meaning is figurative, and […]

   
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