Repetition as a Useful and Effective Literary Device
Writing Queer Workshop (Bite-size)
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6 min readSep 5, 2020
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.