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Antanaclasis   Listen
noun
Antanaclasis  n.  (Rhet.)
(a)
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.
(b)
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.






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