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Title:A rhetorical study of Kiswahili classical poetry: an investigation into the nature and role of repetition
Author:Wamitila, Kyallo WadiISNI
Year:1999
Periodical:Research in African Literatures
Volume:30
Issue:1
Pages:58-73
Language:English
Geographic term:East Africa
Subjects:Swahili language
poetry
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/v030/30.1wamitila.pdf
Abstract:One feature that is distinctly marked in Kiswahili poetry is repetition. Particularly in Kiswahili classical poetry repetition in various forms - metrical patterns, rhythm, alliteration, internal echos, refrains, words, phrases, strophes, or syntactuc structure - is central to its structure. Most of the available works on this poetry lack a detailed look into its structural features. This paper attempts an in-depth analysis of repetition as a structural element of Kiswahili poetry. One of the most noticeable cases of repetition is a recurrence of certain lexical items or lexical reiteration: repetition in the form of synonyms, through conduplicatio or ploke, through polyptoton or adnominatio, and through epanalepsis. He further describes repetition in the form of anadiplosis or duplicatio; inversion and antimetabole; morphological, phonological and syntactical reduplication; and, finally, syntactic parallelism and semiosis as forms of repetition. Bibliogr., note.
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