What is it? - The use of a word referring back to a word used earlier in a text or a conversation, to avoid repeating themselves. The pronouns, He, She, It and They and the verb Do in I like it and so do they.
Why is it used/ what is its effects? - Is the repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech.
Its the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of each line of a poem or speech.
Examples - For example, Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech contains anaphora: "So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling.
Look at you! You are so beautiful.
Your eyes behind your veil are doves
your hair is like a flock of goats
coming down from Mt. Gilead.
Your teeth are like a flock of sheep about to be shared,
who is coming up from being washed?
I am King.
I am your King.
I am Her King.
I am His King.
I AM KING.
