Repetition and chiasmus

on the repeated
use of some units of language (words,

syntax, morphine or sounds)
within the same sentence or the meaning of the text segment. They are used
to make the statement more expressive.

Lexical repetition
Is used to increase the degree of emotion

Syntactic repetition
refers to repetition of syntactic elements or constractions

anaphora

epiphora

syntactic tautology

syntactic parallelism

of several sentences

Examples:
“Ask not what your country can do

for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal»
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former
slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”
Martin Luther King

So many places, so little time.

several sentences examples:

The United States, as the world knows,
will

never start a war. We do not want a war.
We do not now expect a war.

John F. Kennedy, “The Strategy for Peace,” June 1963


With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream“, August 28, 1963

same thing again in different words.

Examples:

The careful, there is a

lot of frozen ice on the road!

In Rome, we saw dilapidated ruins.

Our nation must come together to unite. George W. Bush

«To be or not to be, that is the question»
William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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order to strengthen the emotional impact

examples:

Follow love and it

will flee; flee love and it will follow.

What you see is what you get.

Easy come, easy go.




 

of elements
(a reserved version of syntactic parallelism)

Examples:

epiphora definition? A. A form of repetition in which a word or

words is repeated at the beginning of successive clauses. B. A type of repetition in which a word is repeated in the middle of successive phrases. C. A type of repetition with the same elements at the end of several sentences

Which of the following statements is the correct anaphora definition?
A. A form of repetition in which a word or words is repeated at the beginning of successive clauses. B. A type of repetition in which a word is repeated in the middle of successive phrases. C. A type of repetition with the same elements at the end of several sentences

3. What is a form of repetition?
There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done
Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung
Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game
It’s easy



 

if you can’t be with the one you love, honey, Love the one you’re with.


Answers:

syntactic parallelism

B.

Сhiasmus

C. syntactic tautology