Forms
Anaphora
Writhing Society: Anaphora is a rhetorical technique in which the same phrase begins each line or sentence of a text. Wikipedia has some famous examples. Artist and writer Joe Brainard wrote a memoir made up of a litany of sentences that begin "I remember." After Harry Mathews gave a copy to Georges Perec, Perec wrote his own I Remember, and after Perec's death, Mathews one of his own (called "The Orchard") about Perec. We can take a cue from those three by making remembering lists, or we can begin our lists with "I've forgotten," "I'd like to remember," "I hate it when" (I'm thinking of the creator of some of my favorite lists, Sei Shonagon, though she doesn't use anaphora.) I recently wrote a piece that began "My mother," which was fiction, and not about my actual mother. We can write fictional or nonfictional anaphora.