the use of a grammatical substitute, e.g. a pronoun, to refer to a preceding word or phrase, e.g. the word it in the sentence She bought some salmon because it was specially reduced: compare cataphora
in rhetoric, the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses, esp for effect: compare epistrophe
anaphoric /anəʹforik/ adj
anaphorically /-ʹforikli/ adv
[via late Latin and late Greek from Greek anaphora act of carrying back, reference, from anapherein to carry back, refer, from ana- + pherein to carry]