Repetition (повтор)
Lexical
repetition is
often used to increase the degree of emotion:
'Oh,
No, John, No, John, No, John, No!''(from
a folk song) And
like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, I'll do. (Shakespeare)
Alone,
alone, all, all alone,
Alone
on a wide, wide sea. (Coleridge)
The
repetition of the same elements at the beginning of several
sentences is called anaphora:
Should
auld acquaintance be forgot
And
never brought to mind?
Should
auld acquaintance be forgot
And
days of auld lang syne ? (Burns)
The
repetition of the same elements at the end of several sentences is
called epiphora:
/
am
exactly the man to be placed in a superior position in
such
a case as that. I am
above the rest of mankind, in
such a case as that. I
can act with philosophy in
such a case as that. (Dickens)
The
term Syntactic
repetition refers
to repetition of syntactic elements
or constructions. This may include syntactic tautology
(синтаксическая
тавтология),
such as, for example, the repetition
of the subject of a sentence, which is typical of English folklore:
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