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'''Antanaclasis''' is the [[rhetoric]]al device of repeating a given word, but assigning it multiple meanings. As a play on homonyms, it is also a form of [[pun]], and is often used to comic or witty effect.
'''Antanaclasis''' is the [[rhetoric]]al device of repeating a given word, but assigning it multiple meanings. As a play on homonyms, it is also a form of [[pun]], and is often used to comic or witty effect.
==Examples of Antanaclasis==
*"We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately." --[[Benjamin Franklin]]
*"We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately." --[[Benjamin Franklin]]
*"Put out the light, and then put out the light." (''Othello'' 5.2.7) --[[William Shakespeare]]
*"Put out the light, and then put out the light." (''Othello'' 5.2.7) --[[William Shakespeare]]
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