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Category Archives: Rhetoric

Repetition and Rhetoric

Posted on 13 June, 2013 by Sharn

Aristotle_800When people send me their work for editing they most often ask me to check for repetition. There seems to be a general fear of repeating words and phrases in writing and an idea that we must always find synonyms, which are plentiful in English.

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Posted in Rhetoric | Tagged alliteration, anadiplosis, anaphora, aristotle, epistrophe, epizeuxis, ploce, repetition, rhymes, synonyms

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