Anaforan
Anaforan is a term used in linguistics and rhetoric to denote two related phenomena commonly referred to as anaphora. In discourse analysis and syntactic theory, an anaphor is a word or expression whose interpretation depends on another element, the antecedent, that appears earlier in the text or discourse. Typical anaphors include personal pronouns such as he, she, they, possessives like his or her, and reflexives such as himself or themselves. In languages with rich agreement or pro‑drop features, subjects or objects may be supplied implicitly yet still function anaphorically. The antecedent is the linguistic unit to which the anaphor refers, and the relationship is often indicated by coherence and binding constraints.
In rhetoric, anaphora refers to a stylistic device in which the same word or phrase is repeated