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nounan event that repeats
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nounthe act of doing or performing again
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nounthe repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical devicetype of:
Definition that contains repetition
- redundant repetition of same sense in different words
- redundancy repetition of an act needlessly
- redundancy repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
- epanaphora repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
- tautological repetition of same sense in different words
- polyptoton repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence
- epistrophe repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.
- pleonastic repetition of same sense in different words
- symploce repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe
- epanalepsis repetition after intervening words