repetition – The repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device

According to the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, the definition for repetition is:

1. the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.

2. repeated utterance; reiteration.

3. something made by or resulting from repeating.

4. a reproduction, copy, or replica.

5. Civil Law. an action or demand for the recovery of a payment or delivery made by error or upon failure to fulfill a condition.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME (< OF repeticion) < L repetÄ«tiōn- (s. of repetÄ«tiō), equiv. to repetÄ«t(us)

According to oxford american dictionary—

repetition- the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated

The act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.

The act of repeating – doing, saying, etc. the same thing over and over.

Something that keeps repeating its self.

when something repeats itself

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