Repetition as a Useful and Effective Literary Device

Writing Queer Workshop (Bite-size)

David Wade Chambers
Prism & Pen
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6 min readSep 5, 2020

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Maya Angelou Kingkongphoto &/ CC BY-SA

In the last workshop we focused on word repetition as a bad habit: a lazy writer’s approach to getting words down on paper. Let’s now look at the other side of the same coin. Repetition can also be one of the most powerful tools of rhetoric in the English Language.

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David Wade Chambers
Prism & Pen

Words and Pictures. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Not far off 86 and heading for Nirvana. (Too shabby for Heaven but not wicked enough for Hell.)