IMITATIO  

REPETITIO consisting in overt and deliberate repetition-by-way-of-imitation of a model assumed to be known to the readership/audience.

Hypernym
  • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
    • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
Hyponym
  • PARODIAIMITATIO designed to mock what is being imitated.
    • AEMULATIOIMITATIO of an admired work or author, with the aim of equalling or surpassing the object thus emulated.
      • MIMESISIMITATIO consisting of imitation of sound, action, or behaviour.
        • ONOMATOPOEIA MIMESIS which consists in expressing one's meaning by imitating the sound of what one describes. Imitation of sounds through made-up words.
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