“Have Ye Sufficiently Retained in Remembrance”

Alan C. Miner

According to Donald Parry, cycloides or "circular repetition," as Bullinger explains, "is so called because the sentence or phrase is repeated at intervals, as though in regular circles." This figure, therefore, features an identical phrase, expression, or sentence repeated regularly throughout the paragraph.

have you sufficiently retained in remembrance

the captivity of your fathers? Yea, and

have you sufficiently retained in remembrance

his mercy and long-suffering towards them? And moreover,

have you sufficiently retained in remembrance

that he has delivered their souls from hell? (Alma 5:6)

[Donald W. Parry, The Book of Mormon Text Reformatted according to Parallelistic Patterns, F.A.R.M.S., p. xlii]

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