Definition of
Reiteration
The Latin word reiteratio gave rise to the term reiterationwhich is associated with verb to reiterate. This action, for its part, refers to repeat something. A reiteration, therefore, consists of doing or expressing something that had already been done or manifested previously.
For example: “Remember that the repetition of this match will take place tomorrow at 10 p.m., on this same channel”, “I don’t understand what this boy is trying to do: I thought he hadn’t heard me but, after repeating my request, he continues to act in the same way”, “Ask Gruzzy if he received my email reiteration: he told me the first one I sent never reached him”.
- Types of iterations
- An aggravating factor for the right
- Reiteration in rhetoric
- figure and deixis
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Types of iterations
Reiterations can be justified in multiple ways. A person can reiterate an action or behavior over and over again as it generates welfare either pleasure: always have the same food for lunch, always go on vacation to the same place, etc. Of course, in these examples, the iterations will not always be exact (you cannot eat the same food twice, nor will two travel experiences be identical).
Other types of repetitions, on the other hand, are exactly the same. The movie that is projected in a movie theater at 4:00 p.m. and is repeated at 9:00 p.m., is the same.
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An aggravating factor for the right
In the field of rightrepetition is a factor that can be considered as aggravating at the time of a trial.
If a man who was convicted of theft is released and is later arrested again for a fraud, the repetition of the illegal conduct can be taken as an aggravating factor. If the crimes were the same, we would talk about recidivism instead of repetition.
See also: Aggravating
Reiteration in rhetoric
For rhetoric, the discipline that studies and systematizes techniques and procedures for the use of language with an aesthetic or persuasive purpose and that adds something to the very objective of communication, there is a figure called anaphora or reiteration, which consists of repeating one or more words. at the beginning of a sentence or verse. This can be seen in the following examples:
* «Oh night that you guided! oh kind night more than the dawn! oh night that you put together!»of San Juan de la Cruz;
* “Come out without mourning, come out without mourning, tears running”taken from “eclogue I» of Garcilaso de la Vega;
* “I do not forgive death in love, I do not forgive inattentive life, I do not forgive the earth or nothing”belonging to “Elegy» by Miguel Hernandez.
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figure and deixis
Reiteration as a rhetorical figure can also be understood as the mere repetition of a term when it is found at the beginning of a sentence, but also as an implicit reference or mention of a subject through demonstrative pronouns, as can be seen in the following sentence. : «Carlos and Pedro went shopping; Although they started and finished at the same time, this one spent almost three times as much as that one».
On the other hand, the reiteration can be considered as a deixis carried out by some terms when they assume a part of the discourse that has already been emitted; this happens in the following sentence: “He swore to me that he had already overcome his problem with alcohol, but I highly doubt it”. In prose, the anaphora can be the repetition of certain syntactic groups or of different phrases. When used in oratory, it serves to give a very particular rhythmic and sound force to a message.
It is worth mentioning that reiteration as a rhetorical figure should not be confused with the unnecessary repetition of a term, either in speech or in writing; for example: the text is not very nice “I saw this movie and I saw that movie”since the same idea could be expressed by saying “I’ve seen these two movies”.
See also: Possessive pronouns