In poetry, repetition is repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas. Stanzas are groups of lines that are together. Repetition is used to emphasize a feeling or idea, create rhythm, and/or develop a sense of urgency.

Repetition of Words

• Anadiplosis. The last word of a clause or sentence is repeated as the first word of the next one.
• Anaphora. The word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences is repeated.
• Antistasis.
• Conduplicatio.
• Diacope.
• Epanalepsis.
• Epimone.
• Epiphora.

Epistrophe is the repetition of a word at the end of each phrase or clause. For example, “Every day I’m happy because you love me, I’m more fulfilled because you love me, I have everything because you love me.”

Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words (including in a poem), with no particular placement of the words to secure emphasis.

Repetition is a literary device that involves using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing or speech.

The repeated “w” and “th” sounds add drama to the Friar’s lament about how quickly Romeo has switched affections from Rosaline to Juliet. This repetition is used to illustrate Juliet’s desperate desire for Romeo to come to her.

In English grammar, parallelism (also called parallel structure or parallel construction) is the repetition of the same grammatical form in two or more parts of a sentence. I like to jog, bake, paint, and watching movies. I like to jog, bake, paint, and watch movies.

Oxymoron is a figure of speech pairing two words together that are opposing and/or contradictory. This combination of contrary or antithetical words is also known in conversation as a contradiction in terms. This is a pairing of opposing words that contradict each other. If something is original, then it is not a copy.