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Types and Examples of Repetition

The document discusses repetition, a literary device that repeats words or phrases to emphasize ideas. It defines several types of repetition used in prose and poetry, including diacope, epanalepsis, epimone, and epiphora. The document also lists examples of repetition classified by type, such as anadiplosis, anaphora, and antistasis. Repetition is used as a rhetorical technique to stress the significance of words, phrases, sentences, or lines in a text.

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Types and Examples of Repetition

The document discusses repetition, a literary device that repeats words or phrases to emphasize ideas. It defines several types of repetition used in prose and poetry, including diacope, epanalepsis, epimone, and epiphora. The document also lists examples of repetition classified by type, such as anadiplosis, anaphora, and antistasis. Repetition is used as a rhetorical technique to stress the significance of words, phrases, sentences, or lines in a text.

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Repetition – TNPSC

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 Diacope: Repetition of words broken by some
Repetition other words.
 Epanalepsis: Repetition of same words at the
Repetition is a literary device that repeats the same end and start of a sentence.
words or phrases a few times to make an idea  Epimone: Repetition of a phrase (usually a
clearer. There are several types of repetitions question) to stress a point.
commonly used in both prose and poetry.  Epiphora: Repetition of the same word at the
end of each clause.
As a rhetorical device, it could be a word, a phrase  Gradatio: A construction in poetry where the
or a full sentence or a poetical line repeated to last word of one clause becomes the first of the
emphasize its significance in the entire text. next and so on.
Repetition is not distinguished solely as a figure of  Negative-Positive Restatement: Repetition of an
speech but more as a rhetorical device. idea first in negative terms and then in positive
terms.
 Polyptoton: Repetition of words of the
Types of Repetition sameroot with different endings.
 Symploce: It is a combination ofanaphora and
The following examples of repetition are classified epiphora in which repetition is both at the end
according to the different types of repetition used and at the beginning.
both in literature and in daily conversations.

 Anadiplosis: Repetition of the last word in a line


or clause.
 Anaphora: Repetition of words at the start of
clauses or verses.
 Antistasis: Repetition of word s or phrases in
opposite sense.

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