Upprepningen av en och samma fras i början av meningar i ett tal rytmiserar talet och skapar en tvingande lust hos publiken att vilja applådera.
Det är ingen slump att politiker och andra opinionsbildare använder upprepningen för att elda massorna.
I Martin Luther Kings berömda tal upprepar han "I have a dream" både som en anafor, i början av en mening, men också som en epifor, i slutet av en mening. Men det är upprepningen som hjälper talet till dess kraft.
Hillary Clinton, som är en god retoriker, använde upprepningen för att pränta in sitt budskap hos åhörarna på FN:s kvinnokonferens i Peking 1995.
I skrift blir anaforerna tydliga, men vill du också se och höra talet så klicka på bilden.
Det är ingen slump att politiker och andra opinionsbildare använder upprepningen för att elda massorna.
I Martin Luther Kings berömda tal upprepar han "I have a dream" både som en anafor, i början av en mening, men också som en epifor, i slutet av en mening. Men det är upprepningen som hjälper talet till dess kraft.
Hillary Clinton, som är en god retoriker, använde upprepningen för att pränta in sitt budskap hos åhörarna på FN:s kvinnokonferens i Peking 1995.
I skrift blir anaforerna tydliga, men vill du också se och höra talet så klicka på bilden.
Even today, there are those who are trying to silence our words. But the voices of this conference and of the women at Huairou must be heard loudly and clearly:
It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls.
It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution for human greed -- and the kinds of reasons that are used to justify this
practice should no longer be tolerated.
It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire, and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small.
It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war.
It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes by their own relatives.
It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation.
It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will.
If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that
human rights are women’s rights and
women’s rights are human rights once and for all.
Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely -- and the right to be heard.
It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls.
It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution for human greed -- and the kinds of reasons that are used to justify this
practice should no longer be tolerated.
It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire, and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small.
It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war.
It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes by their own relatives.
It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation.
It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will.
If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that
human rights are women’s rights and
women’s rights are human rights once and for all.
Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely -- and the right to be heard.