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Polyptoton

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Pol`yp`to´ton
n.1.(Rhet.) A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, - "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."
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Noun1.polyptoton - repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence; "My own heart's heart"
repetition - the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
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All of the figures mentioned so far demonstrate Carlin's magnificent sensitivity to prose written and spoken; the same is true of the devices of repetition: antanaclasis, ploce, polysyndeton, antimetabole, polyptoton, pseudo-zeugma.
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But the intrusion of rhetoric here at the end of the poem is remarkable and Wordsworth's specific use of paronomasia and polyptoton suggests another reading.
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It is the so-called pletenie sloves, the intertwining of word and sentence through the medium of sound repetition, such as alliteration and assonance, epanalepsis, figura etymologica, polyptoton, the recurrence of key words or key syllables, paronomasia, synonymy, tautology, etc.
Culture as Memory: On the Poetics of Milorad Pavic by Burkhart, Dagmar / The Review of Contemporary Fiction
 
 
 
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