In my Academic Writing classes this morning, we looked at two passages from Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" (1861) in which the narrator Pip's traumatic childhood scene is repeated, first in the return of the convict Magwitch and then in the return of a second convict, Compeyson. In both sessions, we considered how the later scenes not only repeat the traumatic scene but are themselves full of repetitions (especially anaphora). The internal repetitions in the repeated scenes not only intensify the scenes for Dickens's readers but also, as one student in the second session proposed, externalize the narrating adult Pip's unresolved (and perhaps unresolvable) traumas from his childhood and his younger adulthood. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 11 May 2026)