Repetition in Children's Literature
You ever repeat something over and over in your head to help remember it? That's exactly what's going on in children's literature: authors repeat things so they stick with the kids. Earworms turn into knowledge eventually. So children's stories are full of repeated events, incidents, numbers, days—you name it. And of course, it's all wrapped up in a bunch of pretty pictures and a fun story.
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How is repetition used by authors of children's books? Check out these quotations from Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat, which repeat sounds in rhyming lines. Over and over and over again.
You'll find more repeated sounds and rhymes in Dr. Seuss' Oh, The Places You'll Go!