Emphasis Recruited: Phrases as Repeating Frequency (nN/1S) in Selected Nineteenth-century British Fictions

Repetition in fiction is a very common device that many authors employ to bring forth motifs and themes into their works or as a means of creating emphasis. therefore, it is quite expectable to observe many works with repeated sentences, phrases, and even words in various periods, which either are repetitions of a character’s own words or the repetitions of a character’s utterances by another character in the narrative in a small scale and the repetition of the whole work in larger scale. through the use of genettian repeatingfrequency type (nn/1s), authors are able to stress particular events, provide themes and motifs, and make use of prior narration, simultaneously. by means of scrutiny of repetitions in mary shelly’s frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus , george eliot’s the mill on the floss, and charles dickens’ hard times as three canonical works of british literature through genettian nn/1s frequency type, this study could elaborate on the crucial emphatic role this frequency type plays in emergence of specific effects in these narratives.