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    she is throwing random colours to paint an object as it is. However, in doing so, her language disintegrates itself, loses its meaning, every individual word seems like a detached, colourful dot. The following quotation from her "Portraits and Repetition," should make evident just how closely Gertrude Stein equated her writing…

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    Repetition in Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates repetition in his poem Annabel Lee. He repeats with emphasis that Annabel Lee was beautiful and his. He repeats the phrase kingdom by the sea. Using the repetition, he creates tension in order to build for a better ending. All of this comes together to create a theme of obsession. He uses the phrase “my beautiful Annabel lee” throughout the poem stressing the fact that he was so madly in love with this woman. His repetition creates a…

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    In “Letter from Birmingham Jail” repetition is used numerous times, the purpose is to make certain words or phrases stand out to the reader. Repetition is the action of repeating something that has already been said or written. King repeats the words “when you” in the following statement, “when you have seen vicious mobs… when you have seen hate filled policemen…when you see the vast majority of you twenty million Negro brothers smothering… when you suddenly find your suddenly find your tongue…

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    intense murderous rage, paranoia, trickery and superstitious behavior, as well as remorse and powerful love for his beloved wife. Accordingly, the author’s work is not removed from the author himself: indeed, the story’s aspects of insanity, use of repetition in the story, detailed symbolism, and the character’s internal monologue reflect something keenly evident in Poe: his concurrent depression and lingering frustrations about his own personality, along with a distinct desire for others to…

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    them. But the only one thing am going to talk about is the repetition in some of the songs in Jazz, Gospel songs, Blues, and Hip-hop. Also, they were songs of war or civil right movement. Let me start with “This Little Light of Mine” in Gospel music. People sang this song and other spirituals song during the Civil Rights Movement as a way of expressing unity as they fought for equal rights and freedom for everyone. It has a lot of repetition of “I’m gonna let it shine” in all the verses. This…

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    Poe’s depressive, yet marvelous poem, “Annabel Lee”. In this poem, the speaker is mourning his fiancé, whom passed away. Edgar Allan Poe uses repetition through the poem to convey the sense of how much he loved, and how Annabel Lee was. In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, he emphasizes the theme of eternal love. To show this, he uses repetition; he also uses repetition to emphasize where Annabel Lee lived by. The poet wrote the poem years after the speaker’s fiancé’s passing. He is saying these words…

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    Repetition is a big part in Dr.King's speech. He uses repetition to get his points across to people, and to hammer in all his concepts ( Presentation Magazine). He uses repetition to persuade the audience about the importance of the civil rights movement. Using persuasion through repetition, he let his audience know about his dream for the south.Examples of some of the dreams he had and told everyone…

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    Wiesel uses tone, metaphor, and repetition to illustrate how people can stray from their faith and become hesitant or question their faith and what they believe in. To show loss of faith, Elie…

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    receive rain. All throughout the story story, “All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury uses symbolism and repetition to show how the sun symbolises happiness. The story repetitively shows that the author does put symbolism and repetition to show how the sun symbolizes hope. All the kids in the story needs to know that the sun will come out. All throughout the story the statement: the author uses repetition and symbolism to show that the sun symbolises happiness. is being proven. In the story, all…

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    Coates uses repetition. “A Letter to My Nephew,” by James Baldwin has an explicit audience of his nephew James, but after reading and analyzing his work you come to find out the audience is more broad. This is the same way with Coates’s “Between the World and Me,” his explicit audience is his son but after reading you can find the implied audience in both articles. The implied audience that both authors were trying to reach are…

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