Antanaclasis

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  • n. The repeated use of the same word or phrase, but with a different meaning each time; a kind of pun.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.
  • n. A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In rhetoric, a figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense: as, while we live, let us live; learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.
  • n. In grammar, a repetition, after a long parenthesis, of a word or words preceding it: as, shall that heart (which has been thought to be the seat of emotion, and which is the center of the body's life), shall that heart, etc.
    • Word Usage
    "Related figures, or "topics of invention," such as antanaclasis"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ploce    pun   
    Hyponym
    antistasis   
     
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