Incremental repetition

Incremental repetition

The repetition in each stanza--of a ballad, for example--of part of the preceding stanza, usually with a slight change in wording for effect. Initial Rhyme

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incremental repetition

Literature; Poetry

The repetition in each stanza--of a ballad, for example--of part of the preceding stanza, usually with a slight change in wording for effect. Initial Rhyme

repetition

Music; General music

Within a form, repetition fixes the musical material in our mind and satisfies our need for the familiar; it provides unity to a form.

repetition

Education; SAT vocabulary

The act of repeating.

repetition

Music; General music

Within a form, repetition fixes the musical material in our mind and satisfies our need for the familiar; it provides unity to a form.

repetition

Dance; Choreography

Presentation of a theme or a portion of a theme a number of times for emphasis or to gain form or interest. (It assists in making a specific rhythm increasingly discern able or ...

repetition

Language; Public speaking

Reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive clauses or sentences.

alliterative metre

Literature; Poetry

The distinctive verse form of old germanic poetry, including old english.

amoebean verse

Literature; Poetry

A poetic form in which two characters chant alternate lines, couplets, or stanzas, in competition or debate with one another.

anapaest

Literature; Poetry

A metrical foot made up of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word 'interrupt'.

anxiety of influence

Literature; Poetry

In the unusual view of literary history offered by the critic Harold Bloom, a poet's sense of the crushing weight of poetic tradition which he has to resist and challenge in order ...

acephalous

Literature; Poetry

The Greek word for 'headless', applied to a metrical verse line that lacks the first syllable expected according to regular metre.

alcaics

Literature; Poetry

A Greek verse form using a four-line stanza in which the first two lines have eleven syllables each, the third nine, and the fourth ten.

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