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say it: uh-NAF-ur-uh
anaphora is a noun meaning "using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier". It carries 2 recorded senses.
using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier
repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for anaphora come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.