A reiteration is a repetition.
The Latin word reiteratio gave rise to the term reiteration , which is associated with the verb reiterate. This action, for its part, refers to repeating something . A reiteration, therefore, consists of doing or expressing something that had already been done or expressed previously.
For example: "Remember that the repetition of this match will take place tomorrow at 10 p.m., on this same channel," "I don't understand what this boy is trying to do: I thought he hadn't heard me but, after repeating my request, he continues." acting the same way» , «Ask Gruzzy if he received the reiteration of my email : he told me that the first one I sent never arrived» .
Types of reiterations
Reiterations can be justified in multiple ways. A person can repeat an action or behavior over and over again because it generates well-being or pleasure : always having the same meal, always going on vacation to the same place, etc. Of course, in these examples, the repetitions will not always be exact (you cannot eat the same food twice, nor will two travel experiences be identical).
Other types of reiterations, however, are exactly the same. The film that is projected in a movie theater at 4 p.m. and repeated at 9 p.m. is the same.
When someone really likes a certain food, they can opt for daily repetition of said menu.
An aggravating circumstance for the law
In the field of law , repetition is a factor that can be considered as an aggravating factor at the time of a trial .
If a man who was convicted of theft is released and is later arrested again for fraud, the repetition of the illicit conduct can be taken as an aggravating circumstance. If the crimes were the same, we would speak of recidivism instead of repetition.
Reiteration in rhetoric
For rhetoric , the discipline that studies and systematizes techniques and procedures for using language with an aesthetic or persuasive purpose and that adds something to the objective of communication itself, there is a figure called anaphora or reiteration, which consists of repeating one or more words. at the beginning of a statement or verse. This can be seen in the following examples:
* «O night that you guided! oh kind night more than the dawn! Oh night that you put together! , of Saint John of the Cross;
* "Go out without mourning, go out without mourning, tears flowing" , extracted from " Eclogue I " by Garcilaso de la Vega;
* "I do not forgive death in love, I do not forgive the inattentive life, I do not forgive the earth or nothing" , belonging to " Elegía " by Miguel Hernández.
Figure and deixis
Reiteration as a rhetorical figure can also be understood as the mere repetition of a term when it is at the beginning of a phrase, but also as a reference or implicit mention of a subject through demonstrative pronouns, as can be seen in the following sentence . : «Carlos and Pedro went shopping; Although they started and finished at the same time, this one spent almost three times as much as the other one .
On the other hand, reiteration can be considered as a deixis carried out by some terms when they assume a part of the discourse that has already been issued; This happens in the following sentence: "He swore to me that he had already overcome his alcohol problem, but I highly doubt it ." In prose, anaphora can be the repetition of certain syntactic groups or different phrases. When used in oratory, it serves to give a very particular rhythmic and sound force to a message.
It is worth mentioning that reiteration as a rhetorical figure should not be confused with the unnecessary repetition of a term, whether in speech or writing; For example: the text "I saw this movie and I saw that movie" is not very pleasant, since the same idea could be expressed by saying "I have seen these two movies."