词语解释
反复fǎnfù[reversal]∶
1、颠过来倒过去；翻悔;变化无常反复无常[overandoveragain;repeatedly;againandagain]∶2、一遍又一遍；多次重复反复解释成反复自念,得无教我猎虫所耶?——《聊斋志异·促织》[comeandgo]∶来往,往还。特指书信往反重念蒙君实(司马光)视遇厚,于反复不宜卤莽。——宋·王安石《答司马谏议书》[reverse;takeback]∶扭转,挽救过来其存君兴国而欲反复之。——《史记·屈原贾生列传》3、重复的情况：斗争往往会有反复。4、[relapse]复发,尤指疾病的症状在持续地减轻以后复发伤寒时有反复反复是有意重复同一个词语或句子，以达到突出某种感情、强调某个意思、如加深读者印象的目的。可分为连续反复和间隔反复。
分类
连续与否分
1、连续反复连续出现同一个词语或句子，中间没有间隔叫连续反复。【例】沉默呵，沉默！不在沉默中爆发，就在沉默中灭亡。（鲁迅《纪念刘和珍君》）
2、间隔反复同一个词语或句子不连续出现，有其他词语或句子间隔在中间叫间隔反复。【例】我们还在这样世上活着；我也早觉得有写一点东西必要了。离三月十八日也有两个星期，忘却的救主快要降临了罢，我正有写一点东西的必要了。（《纪念刘和珍君》）
对象分
1．词语反复。为凸显某种感情或某种行为，连续两次以上使用同一词语，达到强调的目的。
2．片语或句子反复。有时为了表达内容或者结构安排的需要，要连续两次以上使用同一个片语或句子。
3．语段反复。在诗歌和小说中最为常见。
区别
反复和排比两种修辞手法都含有相同的词语，形式上相似，容易混淆，两者的区别关键在于其表达的侧重点不同。反复是为了强调某个意思或突出某种情感而重复使用某些词语或句子，所要表达的侧重点在于重复的词语或句子上；排比则是把结构相同或相似、内容相关、语气一致的三个或三个以上的短语或句子排列起来使用，侧重点不在相同的词语上。
例句如北宋欧阳修词《蝶恋花·庭院深深深几许》中“庭院深深深几许，杨柳堆烟，帘幕无重数”；李清照词《声声慢》中“寻寻觅觅，冷冷清清，凄凄惨惨戚戚”，“有人说，那鼓中有鼓村人对穷山恶水的怨恨。鼓村人不语，只管擂！有人说，那鼓中有鼓村人对改天换地的激情。鼓村人不语，只管擂！”均为反复修辞
英语中的反复
反复【Repetition】fǎnfù英语裏的一种重要修辞手法!
1、连续反复
There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooneror later,namely,novelty,novelty,novelty.【ThomasHood】
Scrooge went to bed again,and thought,and thought,and thought it over and over again.*Arise,arise,arise!
There is blood on the earth that denie sye bread；Be yewounds like eyes,To weep for the dead,thedead,thedead.
2、间隔反复【首语重复Anaphora】
Old wood best to burn,old wine to drink,old friends to trust,and old authors to read.Revolution is bloody,revolution is hostile,revolution knows no compromise,revolution over turns and destroys everything that gets in its way.【MalcolmX】
Fare well to the mountains high covered with snow!Fare well to the straths and green valleys below!Fare well to the forests and wild-hanging woods!【RobertBurns】
Fare well to the torrents and loud-pouring floods!【MyHeart’sintheHighlands】
No great generalever ar oseou to fanation of cowards;no great states man or philosophe rou to fanation of fools;no great ar tistou to fanation of materia lists;no great drama tist except when the drama was the passion of the people.【JamesA.Froude:theHistoryofEngland】【尾语重复Epistrophe】
And will you,will you,I will marry you.【W.Shakespeare】
Oyouth!The streng th of it!The faith of it,the imagination of it!【JosephConrad】【首尾反复＋首尾反复】Broke oathonoath,committed wrong on wrong.With ruinuponruin,routonrout,confusionworsecon founded.Nothing can come of nothing.Blood mustatone for blood.【逆转反复Antistophe】For the sky and the sea,and the sea and thesky Laya loadon my weary eye.It was the same every where,crime andbetrayal,betrayaland crime.【JackLondon】When the going get stough,the tough gets going.The soldier faces the powder while the beauty powders the face.
作用
言为心声，反复的修辞手法主要运用在诗文中，起到反复咏叹，表达强烈的情感的作用。同时，反复的修辞手法还可以使诗文的格式整齐有序，而又回环起伏，充满语言美。反复:反复具有突出思想，强调感情，厘清层次，加强节奏感的修辞效果。
