In high school I went to career center for two years for theatre. A big part of our grade each quarter was doing memorizing monologues and scenes and performing them for the class. Every person in that class had their own methods of memorizing their lines; some people wrote their lines out, others recorded themselves saying the lines and played it back, and some just repeated the entire thing over and over again. All of these methods are a version of encoding called rehearsal, where by using repetition the lines were memorized and stored as long term memory. For myself, I would read a sentence or two of the piece I was trying to learn, repeat to myself several times, move on to the next couple of sentences and repeat them to myself until I
