(One understands a "that" after each third word, although there are a variety of ways to parse repeated buffalos if you decide five or six suffice.) Repetition of sounds is the basis of the so-calledtongue twister, where you get someone to say something fast and listen to their mouth t...
Literature is full of repetition. Literary writers constantly use the literary device of repeated words. I think the only type of repetition which is bad is sloppy repetition. Repetition which is unintentional, which sounds awkward. If you repeat on purpose, repetition is gorgeous. I mean, think...
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds. When this type of repetition is used, the words containing similar vowel sounds do not have to come next to each other. However, they should be near each other. Assonance can be used to establish a rhythm in writing and speaking, which is why...
Song lyrics frequently repeat words and have catchy choruses that are easy to memorize and sing along to. Religious chants from numerous societies used repetition even in primitive times. Repetition in poetry refers to the repetition of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas. Stanzas are lines that ar...
For example, epistrophe is concerned with the repetition of words at the end of multiple lines. Or, its opposite, anaphora, which refers to words repeated at the start of multiple lines of poetry. Alliteration is another example. It refers to the repetition of consonant sounds. There is also...
Inconsistency is impossible, not because it is absurd, but because it would permit its bearer to be absolutely necessary – incapable of changing since it would already be what it is supposed to become; incapable of ending, since for it, 'to be is not to be'. On this basis, we must ...
until cue identification was completely at chance. After convergence, this procedure may have resulted in contrasts that are too low to provide any meaningful PAS scale information, which has been shown to be particularly true for cue durations less or equal to 50 ms66. In other words, the...
The street rang with the animated bickering of the boys at their game, with the click of a girl’s shoes as she skipped rope, with the muted sounds of a dozen unseen radios. 大街上玩得兴致勃勃的男孩们在嘻嘻哈哈,吵吵嚷嚷,跳绳的小姑娘的鞋子发出踢踢踏踏的声音,还有好些看不见的收音机传...
himself. But since this cannot really happen, since we all in fact stay right where we are, the ecstasy arrives in the next best way possible: through a cycling back, again and again, to the syllables and sounds that order the world, and that may give some hint of its true cause and...