MULTIFACETED STYLISTIC NATURE OF REPETITION

Аннотация

The purpose of this article is to discuss the problem of repetition, to provide an overview of this very important and frequently used stylistic device, its peculiarities and classification. The analysis shows that repetition is defined as a stylistic device that is formed by the repetition of lexical and syntactic units within a sentence, providing the communicative focus of the sentence- rheme, and unity of discourse and implements a specific pragma-linguistic function, being a means of textual semantic coherence. The stylistic functions of the most commonly used types of repetition are substantiated through relevant examples from literature. KEYWORDS Repetition, stylistic device, text cohesion, classification, anaphora, epiphora, anadiplosis, framing, tautology, polyptoton, rheme.