REPETITION

REPETITION SENTENCES WITH GERUND FOR THE BOOK

* When it comes to giving advice, I can tell you a lot; when it comes to my problems, I don't know what to do.

Being shy makes life ten times harder. No doubt. You have to struggle to do things that other peole find so easy. However, being shy teaches you so much about empathy, observing and understanding.


* A bore is a person who talks so much about himself that you can't talk about yourself.

Repeating Yourself:
When Redundancy is not Redundant

Used deliberately, repetition can be an effective rhetorical strategy for achieving emphasis. Some of the different types of rhetorical repetition are illustrated below.
http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/a/repetitionterm.htm.

Care to know how to bore your readers to tears / to death?

Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, with no particular placement of the words, in order to secure emphasis. This is such a common literary device that it is almost never even noted as a figure of speech. 

Epímone (pronounced "eh-PIM-o-nee")

(pronounced "eh-PIM-o-nee")
Frequent repetition of a phrase or question; dwelling on a point.
One of the best known examples of epimone is Travis Bickle's self-interrogation in the film Taxi Driver (1976): "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking . . . you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who . . . do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? Okay."

Diacope (also called Epizeuxis or Repetition) -- uninterrupted repetition, or repetition with only one or two words between each repeated phrase. Poe might cry out, "Oh, horror, horror, horror!"

Alliteration --repetition of a sound in multiple words:* buckets of big blue berries.
If we want to be super-technical, alliteration comes in two forms.
Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds:

* many more merry men.
If the first letters are the consonants that alliterate, the technique is often called
head rhyme.

Antanaclasis is the repetition of a word or phrase to effect a different meaning. It is the stylistic scheme of repeating a single word or phrase, but with a different meaning. Antanaclasis is a common type of pun, and like other kinds of pun, it is often found in slogans.
* We must all
hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. (Benjamin Franklin)
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. 
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired, with enthusiasm.

Anaphora (the first Word) vs Epiphora (the last Word):

Anaphora - is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of every clause.- repetition of beginning clauses.
* No pain no gain.
* One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. Joseph Stalin
When it comes to giving advice, I can tell you a lot; when it comes to my problems, I don't know what to do.
* (I'm free). Do what you love, Do it often, And do it unapologetically.

Epiphora is a rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. Also known as epistrophe. Contrast with anaphora (rhetoric).
Epiphora can be combined with parallelism, as in the following expression attributed to both [Abraham] Lincoln and P. T. Barnum:
 * You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Symploce (or complexio) is a rhetorical term for the repetition of words or phrases at both the beginning and end of successive clauses or verses: a combination of anaphora and epiphora (or epistrophe). Also known as complexio.
"Symploce is useful for highlighting the contrast between correct and incorrect claims," says Ward Farnsworth. "The speaker changes the word choice in the smallest way that will suffice to separate the two possibilities; the result is conspicuous contrast between the small tweak in wording and the large change in substance"
* The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except / but his reason.
Epanalepsis -- repeating a word from the beginning of a clause at the end of the clause:
* Blood will have blood. (as Shakespeare chillingly phrases it)
* Common sense is not so common, (as Voltaire reminds us).
* Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put and end to mankind." - John F. Kennedy* An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life. (Biblical lextalionis).                    
* Man's inhumanity to man.
Anadiplosis -- repeating the last word of a clause at the beginning of the next clause.Gradatio creates a rhythmical pattern to carry the reader along the text, even as it establishes a connection between words. As Nietzsche said:
* Talent is an adornment; an adornment is also a concealment.
* Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hatred; hatred leads to conflict; conflict leads to suffering.




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