controlling image

American  

noun

1. a literary device employing repetition so as to stress the theme of a work or a particular symbol.

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Example Sentences

"As time went on, David and Victoria acquired more sophisticated advisers who understood the rapidly morphing potential of controlling image and brand, and built a vast and diversified empire for them off the back of it."

From BBC

Google’s mathemagical ways of controlling image noise in the dark are truly unique and ahead of the entire mobile industry, Apple included.

From The Verge

“It didn’t jibe with the overly controlling image Fred Murray portrayed in public.”

From The New Yorker