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New page: '''Antanaclasis''' is the rhetorical 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 co...
'''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]]
"Put out the light, and then put out the light." (''Othello'' 5.2.7) --[[William Shakespeare]]
'''Examples of Antanaclasis'''
"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]]