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What does recapitulation mean?

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  1. A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
  2. (music) The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.
  3. (biology) The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species.
  4. (theology) The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.
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This essay, like much of the book, is derivative, little more than a recapitulation of facts better explored by literary scholars.
Discuss in detail a good example of recapitulation, showing how the stages of ontogeny parallel those of phylogeny.
After the second climax, the music slows with a recapitulation of the opening theme and then fades to nothing.
In the Appendices we include a brief recapitulation of the methods used for these measurements.
This report is a concise recapitulation of events throughout the entire day.
Yet, like Darwin and many science textbooks and evolutionist books for laymen, the editor of this journal endorses embryonic recapitulation.

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