Repetition.

Repetitionis an EM of language used when the speaker is under the stress of strong emotion.

"Stop - she cried, "Don't tell me! I don't want to hear; I don't want to hear what you've come for. I don't want to hear! (Galsworthy). In this sentence we have a SD; it is a means by which the excited state of mind. When used as a SD, repetition acquires quite different functions. The SD of repetition aims at logical emphasis to fix the attention of the reader on the key word of the utterance.

Repetition is classified according to compositional patterns. If the repeated word (or phrase) comes at the beginning of two or more consecutive sentences, clauses or phrases we have anaphora.If the repeated unit is placed at the end of the consecutive sentences, clauses or phrases we have epiphora.Example: "I am exactly the man to be placed in a superior position in such a case as that. I am above the rest of mankind, in such a case as that. I can act with philosophy in such a case as that.

Like many SD, repetition is polyfunctional. The functions have a lot of varieties. Any repetition enchances the rhythmical aspect of the utterance.

Enumeration

Enumerationis a SD by which separate things, objects, phenomena, properties, actions are named one by one so that they produce a chain, the links of which, being syntactically in the same position (homogeneous parts of speech), are forced to display some kind of semantic homogeneity, remote though it may seem.

Most of our notions are associated with other notions due to some kind of relation between them: dependence' cause and result, likeness, dissimilarity, sequence, experience (personal and/or social), proximity, etc.

In fact enumeration as a SD may be conventionally called a sporadic semantic field, in as mush as many cases of enumeration have no continious existence in their manifestation as semantic fields do. The grouping of sometimes absolutely heterogeneous notions occurs only in isolated instances to meet some peculiar purport of the writer. The example of enumeration:

" There Harold gazes oh a work divine, A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine And chief less castles breathing stern farewells From grey but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells." (Byron)

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