01738--cohesion

Cohesion is a term used in linguistic analyses of texts such as those undertaken in stylistics, in reference to the degrees and kinds of internal connection that link different parts of the same text. Cohesion between one sentence, stanza or other unit, and another may be established by sound-patterns such as metre, rhyme, and alliteration, or by pronominal back-reference (she, those, etc.), or by the use of similar syntactical constructions or by conjunctions and similar linking phrases (nor, however, consequently, etc.).