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Anaphora vs Alliteration - What's the difference?

anaphora | alliteration |

As nouns the difference between anaphora and alliteration

is that anaphora is the repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis while alliteration is the repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.

anaphora

English

Alternative forms

* (plural of anaphora) anaphoras, anaphors * (plural of anaphor) anaphors

Noun

  • (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 referent being defined by context.
  • (linguistics) An expression that refers to a preceding expression.
  • English plurals
  • English plurals

    • Derived terms

    * anaphoric

    Usage notes

    * In linguistics, the terms (anaphor) and (term) are sometimes used interchangeably, although in some theories, a distinction is made between them. See .

    Hypernyms

    * (reference to something previously mentioned) endophora

    Coordinate terms

    * (reference to something previously mentioned) cataphora, exophora, homophora

    See also

    * ("anaphora" on Wikipedia) *

    alliteration

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
  • The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

    • Related terms

    * alliterative * alliteratively * alliterativeness

    See also

    * ("alliteration" on Wikipedia)