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antanaclasis

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Ant`an`a`cla´sis
n.1.(Rhet.) 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.
antanaclasis
a repetition of words to resume the sense after a long parenthetical digression. See also rhetoric and rhetorical devices.
See also: Grammar
a rhetorical device in which the same word is repeated but with a different sense each time. See also grammar.
See also: Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices
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2) Further confusion may arise from the fact that modern terminology draws heavily on ancient and Renaissance rhetoric which, although lacked the notion of pun as such, made quite disorderly use of formal devices (principally paronomasia, antanaclasis, sillepsis and asteismus, corresponding roughly to individual pun types) lumped under the common name figura elocutionis (Freidhof 1984: 12; Kohl 1966: 55, 94; Redfern 1984: 82).
The formal composition of puns in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost: ... by Adamczyk, Magdalena / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
The rhetorics of Shakespeare's time distinguished a number of different kinds of phonetic, semantic, and syntactic overlapping, for example, paronomasia, antanaclasis, asteismus, and syllepsis.
Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context by de Grazia, Margreta / Shakespeare Studies
frequently toys with her phrases to give them added interest, as in his repeated reworkings of Cary's favorite rhetorical flourish, an orthographic rebound known as the antanaclasis (so dubbed in Puttenham's Art of English Poesie [216-17]).
"A Funeral Elegy": W(illiam) S(hakespeare)'s "best-speaking ... by Foster, Donald W. / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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