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‖ antanaclasis Rhet. ? Obs.|æntəˈnækləsɪs|
[L., a. Gr. ἀντανάκλασις, f. ἀντανακλά-ειν to reflect, bend back; f. ἀντί against, in the opposite direction + ἀνακλά-ειν to break or bend back.]
1. A figure of speech, ‘when the same word is repeated in a different, if not in a contrary signification; as In thy youth learn some craft, that in thy old age thou mayest get thy living without craft.’ J.
1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 107 Antanaclasis, A figure when the same word is repeated in a divers if not in a contrary signification..also a retreat to the matter at the end of a long parenthesis. 1681Manton Serm. Ps. cxix. 123 Wks. 1872 VIII. 266 ‘That Abraham against hope believed in hope’..is an antanaclasis, an elegant figure, having the form of a contradiction. 1711Addison Spect. No. 61 ⁋3 He generally talked in the Paranomasia..but in his humble Opinion he shined most in the Antanaclasis.
2. ‘A returning to the matter at the end of a long parenthesis; as Shall that heart (which doth not only feel them, but hath all motion of his life placed in them) shall that heart, I say, etc.’ J.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 364 That mortall Antanaclasis, and desperate piece of Rhetorick. 1657[See in 1.] |