antanaclasis

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.

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  • Fully updated to include terms that have become prominent in literature in the last few years, from cyberpunk to antanaclasis, the Second Edition is ingeniously designed to tackle the less obvious terms that students and general readers will encounter. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • Of the remaining long list of figures, the Irish are particularly disposed to the epizeuxis, as 'indeed, indeed -- at all, at all,' and antanaclasis, or double meaning. —  Tales and Novels — Volume 04
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀντανάκλασις, reflection of light or sound, use of a word in an altered sense, literally a bending back against, from ἀντανακλᾶν, bend back against, reflect, from ἀντί, against, + ἀνακλᾶν, bend back: see anaclasis.
 

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