A repetition is a whole series of speech figures,which are based on the repeated use of some units of the language (for example, words, syntactic constructions, morphemes or sounds) within one sentence or a semantic segment of the text. They are used to make the statement more expressive.
Depending on the criteria underlyingseveral types of repetitions. For example, we can take into account the type of units that occur several times. Then the sound, morphemic, syntactic and lexical repetition is singled out.
The next criterion is the location of those units that occur several times. Depending on this, the repetitions are:
It is also important how accurately the original word, sound or structure is reproduced. Depending on this, the repetitions are partial and complete.
Their classification is also influenced by the syntacticposition in a specific segment of speech (strophe, paragraph, sentence, line) of identical units that occur many times. So in the case of ordered repeats, it is the same for all. In the case of disordered ones, the syntactic position does not unite these units.
In the artistic text is most often usedit is a lexical repetition. It is the intentional repeated use of units of speech to give the text expressiveness or accent the reader's attention, the listener at some particular moment. The closer their location to each other, the more likely that the addressee will notice them.
The very term "lexical repetition" already makes it clear,that in this case the same units that occur many times in a row are words. Use it only when the speaker wishes only to note in general the use of the same lexemes. When it comes to building a repetition, its organization, then use terms that give a more accurate description. This, for example, is a junction, an epicor, a ring, an anaphora, and many others.
And in the artistic text and in colloquial speech, lexical repetition plays a huge role and performs several functions.
The lexical repetition in the writings of the classics isa tool that helps make the statement expressive, connect phrases (along a chain), sharpen the meaning, a way to draw the reader's attention to the subtext. But in the composition of a schoolboy he is most often mistaken for a speech error by the teacher. But is this decision always motivated? The use of lexical repetition in speech can not be considered justified in only two cases:
Only on this basis can you takeThe use of lexical repetition for an error, which indicates that the student's vocabulary is very limited and he is not able to find a suitable substitute for the word.