CATAPHORA

Etymology

Noun

cataphora (plural cataphoras)

(linguistics, rhetoric) The use of a pronoun, or other linguistic unit, before the noun phrase to which it refers, sometimes used for rhetorical effect.

Antonyms

• anaphora

Hypernyms

• endophora

Source: Wiktionary



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