Stylistic Devices – Cataphora
Cataphora
Cataphora refers to a figure of speech where an earlier expression refers to or describes a forward expression. Cataphora is the opposite of anaphora, a reference forward as opposed to backward in the discourse.
Examples of cataphora
These are some examples:
- If you want them, there are cookies in the kitchen. (them is an instance of cataphora because it refers to cookies which hasn’t been mentioned in the discourse prior to that point.)
- After he had received his orders, the soldier left the barracks. (he is also a cataphoric reference to the soldier which is mentioned later in the discourse)
List of Figures of Speech in the English Language – Literary Devices |
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Accumulation | Climax | Metalepsis |
Adjunction | Dysphemism | Metaphor |
Adnomination | Ellipsis | Metonymy |
Alliteration | Euphemism | Simile |
Allusion | Epigram | Synecdoche |
Anaphora | Epiphora (or epistrophe) | Tautology |
Antanaclasis | Hyperbole | Understatement |
Anticlimax | Hypophora | Zeugma and syllepsis |
Antiphrasis | Irony | |
Antithesis | Litotes | |
Apostrophe | Oxymoron | |
Assonance | Personification | |
Cataphora | Puns | |
Chiasmus | Merism |
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