This article discusses the diverse and multipurpose characteristics of repetitive structures, which are considered figures of speech in a 16-spea kers sample from Corpus Sociolinguistico de Merida (1998). In general, poetic or rhetorical figures a re understood as textual process forms, regardless of the genre of texts. Most speak ers use figures of various types by means of multiple language options. Particularly, repetition is understood as a process of creating
