Wassan Noori Fadhil & Sabrina Abdulkadhom Abdulridha Jelal
University of Karbala & Ahl Al-Bayt University, Iraq
Poetry is an art form in which language is used to convey feelings and ideas. To create a poetic intensity and emphasize a specific theme, poets may repeat a word, a phrase, or even a sentence. This phenomenon is called repetition which is a powerful and successful tool the poets utilize for achieving dissimilar tasks. The present paper investigates the concept of repetition as a rhetorical device and explores the pragmatic function behind its manifestation in the romantic poetry. Kemertelideze and Manjavidze’s (2013) model is adopted in this study to identify the types of repetition occurred in the corpus. The paper reveals that the romantic poets make use of most categories of repetition and particularly the anaphora one. Such result may be attributed to the fact that whatever the form of repetition is, it produces deeper level of emphasis, clarity, amplification, and emotional effect.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Third International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 31 January-1February 2019 , Ahwaz.
