Antanaclasis

Antanaclasis

In rhetoric, antanaclasis (from Greek antanáklasis, meaning reflection, echo) is the stylistic trope of repeating a single word, but with a different meaning each time. Antanaclasis is a common type of pun, and like other kinds of pun, it is often found in slogans.

Examples

* A famous example of antanaclasis is seen in William Shakespeare's "Henry V" when the King sends the French ambassadors back to their master with an answer to the insulting gift of tennis-balls. He says, "for many a thousand widows/ Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands; Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down;" (HENRY V, I, ii, 284-286)
*"I don’t believe that Mr. Bush is a Christian. Christians believe in the prophets, peace be upon them. Bush believes in profits and how to get a piece of them." —George Galloway
*"We must all "hang" together, or assuredly we shall all "hang" separately." —Benjamin Franklin
*"If you aren't "fired" with enthusiasm, you will be "fired" with enthusiasm." —Vince Lombardi
*"The "long" cigarette that's "long" on flavor." —from an advertisement for Pall Mall cigarettes
*"Sorry, Charlie. StarKist doesn't want tunas with good "taste" — StarKist wants tunas that "taste" good." —from 1980s StarKist tuna advertisements
*"Put out the light, then put out the light." —Shakespeare's Othello
*"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." -Groucho Marx [http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26.html]
*"Working hard or hardly working?"
*"If you don't "get it", you don't "get it"." —"The Washington Post" slogan
*"She is nice from far, but far from nice!" - Popular.
*"Your argument is sound, nothing but sound." —Benjamin Franklin

References


*cite web
title = Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations
url=http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26.html
accessdate = 2007-06-26
*Corbett, Edward P.J. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Oxford University Press, New York, 1971.

ee also

*Figure of speech
*Pun
*Rhetoric
*Syllepsis
*List of linguistic example sentences


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