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Schemes of Repetition

Schemes of Repetition. Don’t be repetitive, but use repetition. Schemes of repetition can lead the reader to pay closer attention to the writing Helps audience see the writer as purposeful, forceful, or artistic. Schemes of Repetition.

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Schemes of Repetition

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  1. Schemes of Repetition

  2. Don’t be repetitive, but use repetition • Schemes of repetition can lead the reader to pay closer attention to the writing • Helps audience see the writer as purposeful, forceful, or artistic

  3. Schemes of Repetition • Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words • Intramural hockey is a strenuous, stimulating, satisfying sport. • Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words • A workout partner is finally a kind, reliable, right-minded helper.

  4. Repetition (2) • Anaphora: Repetition of the same group of words at the beginning of successive clauses • Exercise builds stamina in young children; exercise builds stamina in teenagers and adults; exercise builds stamina in older adults and senior citizens. • Epistrophe: Repetition of the same group of words at the end of successive clauses. • To become a top-notch player, I thought like an athlete; I trained like an athlete; I ate like an athlete.

  5. Repetition (3) • Anadiplosis: Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. • Mental preparation leads to training; training builds muscle tone and coordination; muscle tone and coordination, combined with focused thinking, produces athletic excellence. • Anadiplosis is combined with climax here for a technique called “climbing the ladder”

  6. Repetition (4) • Epanalepsis: Repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end. • Beginning and end are positions with strongest emphasis • By using this technique, you draw attention to the word • Water alone dug this giant canyon; yes, just plain water. • To report that your committee is still investigating the matter is to tell me that you have nothing to report.

  7. Repetition (5) • Chiasmus: Repetition of ideas or grammatical structures in inverted order • Don’t get confused with antimetabole, which repeats exact words in inverted order • “But O, what damned minutes tells he o’er / Who dotes, yet doubts; who suspects, yet strong loves.” –Shakespeare • Dotes and loves are related to one another and are reversed. Same with doubts and suspects. • It is boring to eat; to sleep is fulfilling.

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