Norwegian Journal of development of the International Science
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LEXICAL AND SYNTACTICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES BASED ON REPETITION

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The article elaborates the difference between similar lexical and syntactical devices which are based on repetition. Similar and distinctive points of some different rhetoric devices have been studied in the article. Lexical and syntactical devices such as epistrophe or anaphora, mesodiplosis, epiphora, symploce, epizeuxis, parallel construction, reversed construction or chiasmus, antimetabole, anadiplosis,  antistasis, negative-positive restatement, diacope and gradatio, epanalepsis have been analyzed respectively. While analyzing the terms which are based on the repetition, it turned out that the major goal of these devices is the emphasis. Despite one common feature, these rhetoric devices and techniques differ from each other for the location along or inside the sentence(s) or clause(s). So some of them are repeated at the beginning of the sentence (epistrophe) while the others are found at the end (epiphora) and in the middle (mesodiplosis) of the sentence or clause. Some are repeated within two or more clauses or sentences in different places.

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