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Concept
Repetition (rhetorical device)
Résumé
Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words (including in a poem), with no particular placement of the words to secure emphasis. It is a multilinguistic written or spoken device, frequently used in English and several other languages, such as Hindi and Chinese, and so rarely termed a figure of speech.
Its forms, many of which are listed below, have varying resonances to listing (forms of enumeration, such as "Firstly, Secondly, Thirdly and lastly..."), as a matter of trite logic often similar in effect.
Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
Antimetabole is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order.
"I know what I like, and I like what I know."
Tautology is superfluous and simple repetition of the same sense in different words.
"The children gathered in a round circle."
Antanaclasis is the repetition of a word or phrase to effect a different meaning.
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." (Benjamin Franklin)
Epizeuxis or palilogia is the repetition of a single word or phrase, with no other words in between. This is derived from Greek for "fastening together".
"Words, words, words." (Hamlet)
Conduplicatio is the repetition of a word in various places throughout a paragraph.
"And the world said, 'Disarm, disclose, or face serious consequences'—and therefore, we worked with the world, we worked to make sure that Saddam Hussein heard the message of the world." (George W. Bush)
Anadiplosis is the repetition of the last word of a preceding clause. The word is used at the end of a sentence and then used again at the beginning of the next sentence.
"This, it seemed to him, was the end, the end of a world as he had known it..." (James Oliver Curwood)
Anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of every clause. It comes from the Greek phrase "carrying up or back".
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