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Cataphora

//kætəˈfɔɹə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The use of a pronoun, or other linguistic unit, before the noun phrase to which it refers, sometimes used for rhetorical effect. countable, rhetoric, uncountable

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καταφορά (kataphorá, “a downward motion”), from κατά (katá, “downwards”) + φέρω (phérō, “I carry”).

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