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Figures of speech: Repetition

Techniques > Use of language > Figures of speech  > Figures of speech: Repetition

There is a family of figures of speech where a key element is repetition, often with the attention of gaining attention or emphasizing importance. Here they are:

• Alliteration: Repetition of same initial sound.
• Anacephalaeosis: Summary of known facts.
• Anadiplosis: Repeating last word at start of next sentence.
• Anaphora: Repeating initial words.
• Antanaclasis: Repeating same word, with meaning change.
• Antimetabole: repeating clause, reversing word order.
• Antistrophe: Repeating the final word in successive phrases.
• Assonance: Repeating the same vowel sound.
• Auxesis: Enhancement of importance.
• Chiasmus: Two phrases, with reversal in second.
• Consonance: Repeating consonant sounds.
• Correctio: Correction to revise meaning.
• Dysrhythmia: Breaking of a rhythmic pattern.
• Epanados: Repeating words in the reverse order.
• Epistrophe: Repetition of the same final word or phrase.
• Epizeuxis: Repetition of a word with vehemence.
• Exergasia: Restating a point in different words.
• Homoioteleuton: similar endings in adjacent or parallel words.
• Hypozeuxis: Every clause having its own subject and verb.
• Inclusio: Bracketing a passage with the same words.
• Parachesis: Repeating the same sound in successive words.
• Parallelism: Repeated patterns in a sentence.
• Paregmenon: Repetition of words of the same root.
• Parison: Matching patterns across structures.
• Parisosis: Same number of syllables in a clause.
• Paroemion: Excessive alliteration.
• Paromoiosis. Similar sounds across two clauses.
• Polyptoton: Repetition in different forms.
• Polysyndeton: Repeating conjunctions.
• Repetitio: Repeating a single word.
• Rhyme: Repeating sounds at end of words.
• Synonymia: Repeating synonyms for amplification.
• Tautology: Repeating meaning, unnecessarily.
• Tricolon: Three components, increasing power.

See also

Repetition principle

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