单词 | antanaclasis |
释义 | antanaclasisn. Rhetoric. 1. A figure of speech involving repetition of a word in a different sense. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > repetition > of same word in contrary contexts antanaclasis1577 1577 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence sig. K.ijv Antanaclasis, when we repeate one worde that hath two signifycations, and one of them contrary, or at the leaste vnlike to the other. 1640 D. Featley et al. Θρηνοικος xliv. 861 It is no Antithesis to the Text, but an elegant Antanaclasis. 1681 J. Howe Of Thoughtfulness for Morrow 95 In common speech, especially of Superiours to Inferiours, such antanaclases (as the figure is called) are frequent. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 61. ¶3 He generally talked in the Paranomasia..but..in his humble Opinion he shined most in the Antanaclasis. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Antanaclasis,..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. 1829 Q. Rev. Jan. 111 What have boys to do with such terms as Polysyndeton, Asyndeton and Parelcon,..Oxymoron and Antanaclasis. 1893 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 12 113 The repetition of the same word in a different meaning (antanaclasis). 1960 B. Joseph Acting Shakespeare iii. 32 Whenever we find a pun in Shakespeare we are perfectly entitled to give it the more imposing title of Antanaclasis. 1988 D. B. Wyrick Jonathan Swift & Vested Word v. 164 He exploits one variety of pun—antanaclasis, the repetition of a word with a slippage in meaning. 2007 S. Read in S. Adamson et al. Renaissance Figures of Speech 92 This type of syllepsis..is evidently very different from the leisurely declensions through which Andrewes puts his antanaclases. 2. A figure of speech involving repetition or reiteration of the topic of a sentence after a digression. Now rare.In quot. 1788 in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > parenthesis > return to previous matter antanaclasis?1599 ?1599 J. Hoskins Direct. for Speech & Style (1935) (modernized text) 44 If they [sc. parentheses] be long, the[y] seem interruptions, and therefore at the end of them there must be a retreat to the matter, called Antanaclasis. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 364 That mortall Antanaclasis, and desperate piece of Rhetorick. View more context for this quotation 1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 107 Antanaclasis,..a retreat to the matter at the end of a long parenthesis. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Antanaclasis,..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. 1788 ‘Solomon II.’ (title) Antanaclasis: Or, The substance of a sermon lately delivered from the pulpit, in a dissenting meeting-house, at Horncastle. 1862 Pop. Encycl. I. 188 The returning to a subject after a long parenthesis is also called antanaclasis. 1943 J. T. Shipley Dict. World Lit. 182/1 The return to the main movement: Antanaclasis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1577 |
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