“Repetition is a recurrence of the same word, word combination or phrase for two or more times.”( M. Кузнец, Ю. Скребнев Стилистика английского языка, М., 1960, c. 51)
The sentence Christopher Robin said nothing, but his eyes got larger and larger, and his face got pinker and pinker. According to I. Galperin is not a Repetition as a SD proper, but a means by which the excited state of mind of the character is shown. He believes that “when used as a SD Repetition does not aim at making a direct emotional impact. On the contrary, the stylistic device of Repetition aims at logical emphasis. An emphasis that is necessary to fix the attention of the reader on the key-word of the utterance.”(35 I.Galperin Stylistics, M., 1971, p.181) For example, “We woke up in the morning, said Rabbit, and what do we find? We find a strange Animal among us. An Animal of whom we have never heard before: An Animal, who carries her family about her in her pocket.” (A. Miln)
We will dwell upon two types of Repetition: Anaphora and Epiphora. If the repeated word comes at the beginning of two or more consecutive sentences, clauses or phrases we have Anaphora as in the example above. If the repeated unit is placed at the end of consecutive sentences, clauses or phrases we have the type of Repetition called Epiphora as in: You have a house, Piglet and I have a house, and they are very good houses, and Christopher Robin has a house and Owl and Kanga and Rabbit have their houses and even Rabbit’s friends and relations have houses, but poor Eeyore has nothing. (A. Miln)
Also I would like to say that there are a few songs that have involved a lot of repetition.
"Keep bleeding, keep keep bleeding love.."
"No one, no one, no one.."
"Gimme, gimme more, gimme more, gimme, gimme more.."
Rihanna is the worst culprit of this:
"Umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh.."
"Shut up and drive, drive, drive.."
"Please don't stop the music, please don't stop the music.."
Just wondering what people's thoughts were on this. I like all the above songs so I guess it doesn't bother me but I know it does for others.