Repetition (rhetorical device)

Repetition or repetitio (lat. repeat) called a rhetorical figure of repetition. There are repeated individual parts of a sentence, the statement reinforced and the intensity is increased.

Examples:

  • " O mother! What is salvation? O mother! What is hell? " ( Gottfried August Bürger, Lenore )
  • "Oh dear! Oh dear! "
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