Importance Of Repetition In English Language

Repetition is a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable. There are several types of repetition commonly used in both prose and poetry. As a rhetorical device, it could be a word, a phrase, or a full sentence, or a poetical line repeated to emphasize its significance in the entire text. Repetition is not distinguished solely as a figure of speech, but more as a rhetorical device. It is very important for translators to translate repetition from English into Chinese in order to let the readers know the beauty of the English language. Though the translation society has various opinions on rhetorical translation, aesthetics is one of the best theories to guide the translator

In its more technically epistemological perspective, it is defined as the study of subjective and sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. Aesthetics studies how artists imagine, create and perform works of art; how people use, enjoy, and criticize art; and what happens in their minds when they look at paintings, listen to music, or read poetry, and understand what they see and hear. It also studies how they feel about art-- why they like some works and not others, and how art can affect their moods, beliefs, and attitude toward life. More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection on art, culture and nature". In modern English, the term aesthetic can also refer to a set of principles underlying the works of a particular art movement or theory: one speaks, for example, of the Cubist

He was also a photographer and musician. Waller received his BA and MA from University of Northern Iowa (then known as Iowa State Teachers College). He received his PhD in business from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington in 1968. Several of his books have been on the New York Times bestseller list. As for the translator, it is Zi Zhongyun who translates The Bridges of Madison County into Chinese. She born June 1930, is a Chinese translator and historian who is an expert on US studies with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She masters English and French.
In the The Bridges of Madison County, the author, waller has used different types of repetition, including Immediate repetition, anaphora, epiphora, symploce, tautology and isocolon.
Waller uses a mass of "repetition" rhetoric, which not result in redundant words, on the contrary, it is the repeated words, phrases, sentences that caused the effect of the sweep. Thus, there are many specific examples can be used in the study of the translation of “repetition” rhetoric and here is one of examples in the novel.
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