1. 1 Chapter 5 Syntactic Overregularity  Definition: the repetition of certain linguistic units of a tex t and in parallelism, where some features vary while other s are kept constant. Namely, it includes repetition and parall elism.  Repetition is restricted to mean the case of exact copying of a certain previous unit in a text, such as word, phrase or even a sentence, which subsumes immediate repetition and intermittent repetition.

2.  Immediate repetition:the repeated unit immediately follows the initial unit.  for example:  Do not go gentle into that good night,  Old age should burn and rave at close of day,  Rage,rage againt the dying of light.  Notes:Rage is repeated 8 times in this poem,thus great emphasis is attached on the item,and also on the whole theme of the poem:one should struggle violently against death.The repetition serves to combine the lines together and to give unity to the idea expressed.

3. 3  Do not go gentle into that good night,  Old age should burn and rave at close of day;  Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right,  Because their words had forked no lightning they  Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright  Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,  Rage, rage against the dying of the light. .

4. 4  Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,  And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,  Do not go gentle into that good night.  Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight  Blind eyes could blaze like 4)meteors and be gay,  Rage, rage against the dying of the light.  And you, my father, there on the sad height,  Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.  Do not go gentle into that good night.  Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

5. 5 Example 2  Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!  Bright and yellow, hard and cold,  Molten, graven, hammer’d and roll’d,  Heavy to get and light to hold. (Thomas Hood)  “Gold” is repeated four times and reinforced by the capital ization of the first letter and the exclamation mark. It implic ates the poet’s great intensity of feeling when talking about gold.

6. 6 Example 3  The woods are lovely, dark and deep,  But I have promise to keep,  And miles to go before I sleep.  Here the repetition implies “ there is a long way to go before I die.”and the author is rather weary of the journey he takes.

7. 7 Example 3  The woods are lovely, dark and deep,  But I have promise to keep,  And miles to go before I sleep.  Here the repetition implies “ there is a long way to go before I die.”and the author is rather weary of the journey he takes.

8. 8 Example 3  The woods are lovely, dark and deep,  But I have promise to keep,  And miles to go before I sleep.  Here the repetition implies “ there is a long way to go before I die.”and the author is rather weary of the journey he takes.