Persuasion : Repetition of Ideas

• commoratio : dwelling on or returning to one's strongest argument.
• disjunctio : a similar idea is expressed with different verbs in successive clauses.
• epanodos : repeating the main terms of an argument in the course of presenting it.
• epimone : persistent repetition of the same plea in much the same words.
• exergasia : augmentation by repeating the same thought in many figures.
• expolitio : repetition of the same idea, changing either its words, its delivery, or the general treatment it is given.
• homiologia : tedious and inane repetition. unvaried style.
• hypozeuxis palilogia : repetition in order to increase general fullness or to communicate passion.
• pleonasmus : use of more words than is necessary semantically. rhetorical repetition that is grammatically superfluous.
• scesis onomaton : a series of successive, synonymous expressions.
• synonymia : the use of several synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term. a kind of repetition that adds force.
• tautologia : the repetition of the same idea in different words, but (often) in a way that is wearisome or unnecessary.
• traductio : repeating the same word variously throughout a sentence or thought.

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Writing : Repetition of Clauses and Phrases

• anaphora : repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines.
• coenotes : repetition of two different phrases: one at the beginning and the other at the end of successive paragraphs. A specific kind of symploce.
• epistrophe : repetition at the end of a line, phrase, or clause of the word or words that occurred at the beginning of the same line, phrase, or clause.
• isocolon : a series of similarly structured elements having the same length. The length of each member is repeated in parallel fashion.
• mesarchia : the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning and middleof successive sentences.
• mesodiplosis : repetition of the same word or words in the middle of successive sentences.
• repotia : the repetition of a phrase with slight differences in style, diction, tone, etc.