Editing One Thousand and One Nights (section)

===Repetition===
[[File:One_Thousand_and_One_Nights26.jpg|thumb|Illustration of ''One Thousand and One Nights'' by [[Sani ol molk]], Iran, 1849–1856]]

''[[Leitwortstil]]'' is "the purposeful [[Repetition (rhetorical device)|repetition]] of words" in a given literary piece that "usually expresses a [[Motif (narrative)|motif]] or [[Theme (literature)|theme]] important to the given story." This device occurs in the ''One Thousand and One Nights'', which binds several tales in a story cycle. The storytellers of the tales relied on this technique "to shape the constituent members of their story cycles into a coherent whole".<ref name=Heath>{{cite journal|first=Peter|last=Heath|title=Reviewed work(s): ''Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights'' by David Pinault|journal=[[International Journal of Middle East Studies]]|volume=26|issue=2|date=May 1994|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|pages=358–360 [359–60]|doi=10.1017/s0020743800060633|s2cid=162223060 }}</ref>

Another technique used in the ''One Thousand and One Nights'' is [[thematic patterning]], which is:<blockquote>[T]he distribution of recurrent thematic concepts and moralistic motifs among the various incidents and frames of a story. In a skillfully crafted tale, thematic patterning may be arranged so as to emphasize the unifying argument or salient idea which disparate events and disparate frames have in common.<ref name="Heath-360">{{cite journal|first=Peter|last=Heath|title=Reviewed work(s): ''Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights'' by David Pinault|journal=[[International Journal of Middle East Studies]]|volume=26|issue=2|date=May 1994|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|pages=358–360 [360]|doi=10.1017/s0020743800060633|s2cid=162223060 }}</ref></blockquote>Several different variants of the "[[Cinderella]]" story, which has its origins in the ancient Greek story of [[Rhodopis]], appear in the ''One Thousand and One Nights'', including "The Second Shaykh's Story", "The Eldest Lady's Tale" and "Abdallah ibn Fadil and His Brothers", all dealing with the theme of a younger sibling harassed by two jealous elders. In some of these, the siblings are female, while in others they are male. One of the tales, "Judar and His Brethren", departs from the [[happy ending]]s of previous variants and reworks the plot to give it a [[tragic]] ending instead, with the younger brother being poisoned by his elder brothers.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia|last=Ulrich Marzolph, Richard van Leeuwen|first=Hassan Wassouf|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|year=2004|isbn=1-57607-204-5|page=4}}</ref>