Word: anaphora
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...even as fine translator as Pinsky or Allen Mandelbaum (whose 1980 black verse translation of the Comedy is a Harvard classroom staple) cannot convey the full effect of Dante's dark anaphora that opens the thirteenth canto: six of the first eight lines begin with the word "Non," producing a hauntingly landscape of negation...
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