Look up: Antanaclasis


  1. Antanaclasis
    Ant`an·a·cla'sis noun [ Greek ...; ... + ... a bending back and breaking. See Anaclastic .] (Rhet.) (a) A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that w...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/90

  2. antanaclasis
    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. ... 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 ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?antanaclasis

  3. Antanaclasis
    • (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...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/antanaclasis/

  4. antanaclasis
    a word used in two or more of its possible meanings, as in the final two lines of Robert Frost`s `Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening`:The woods are ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/80

  5. Antanaclasis
    In rhetoric, antanaclasis (s {respell|ant-ə|NAK|lə-sis} or s {respell|ANT|an-ə|KLAS|iss}; from the ἀντανάκλασις, antanáklasis, meaning "reflection") is the stylistic scheme of repeating a single word, but with a different meaning each time. Antanaclasis is a common type of pun, and...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis

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