{"id":472,"date":"2014-01-20T15:11:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T22:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2014-01-20T15:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T22:11:27","slug":"play-with-anaphoras-prompt-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/play-with-anaphoras-prompt-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Play with anaphoras.   Prompt #38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anaphora: Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect. For example: Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s <a title=\"Lincoln's speech\" href=\"http:\/\/quotes.dictionary.com\/we_cannot_dedicate_we_cannot_consecrate_we_cannot\">speech<\/a>, \u201cWe cannot dedicate\u2014we cannot consecrate\u2014we cannot hallow\u2014this ground.\u201d \u2014 <a title=\"Anaphora\" href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/anaphora\">Merriam-Webster online dictionary.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous 1963 March on Washington <a title=\"king speech\" href=\"http:\/\/www.let.rug.nl\/usa\/documents\/1951-\/martin-luther-kings-i-have-a-dream-speech-august-28-1963.php\">speech<\/a>, he repeated the phrase &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; at the beginning of his sentences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prompt<\/strong>:\u00a0 Using Lincoln&#8217;s speech or King&#8217;s speech as inspiration, incorporate anaphora in your next story, poem or essay.<\/p>\n<p>Repeat a statement or idea that drives home the core message of your narrative. \u2014 except from January 2014, The Writer magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anaphora: Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect. For example: Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s speech, \u201cWe cannot dedicate\u2014we cannot consecrate\u2014we cannot hallow\u2014this ground.\u201d \u2014 Merriam-Webster online dictionary. When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous 1963 March on Washington speech, he repeated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[256,254,255],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-anaphora","tag-martin-luther-king-jr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-7C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}