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polyptoton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Polyptoton /ˌpɒlɪpˈtoʊtɒn/ is the
stylistic scheme in
which different words derived from the same...
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Antanaclasis Eats,
Shoots &
Leaves List of
linguistic example sentences Polyptoton Semantic satiation Other linguistically complex sentences:
James while...
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really just
inflections of the same word. That
makes this
sentence a
polyptoton.
Examples in
modern English are the
phrases "might and main" (both of...
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interventions and
rhetorical techniques such as alliterations, chiasmus,
polyptoton, paradoxes, antitheses, oxymoron,
etymological figures and so forth. In...
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Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the
Perfect English Phrase is a non-fiction book by Mark
Forsyth published in 2013. The book
explains classical...
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nearly every word in a
sentence or
phrase begins with the same letter.
Polyptoton:
repetition of
words derived from the same root. Polysyndeton:
close repetition...
- In the long
green gr**** Will be
yours and
yours and yours. — Leo
Marks Polyptoton is the
repetition of a word
derived from the same root in
different grammatical...
- poem
employs several literary techniques that are
central to its effect:
Polyptoton: The
repetition of
variations of "mark" in "Marks of weakness,
marks of...
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logical fallacy Figure of
speech List of
linguistic example sentences Polyptoton Pun
Rhetoric Zeugma Antanaklasis,
Henry George Liddell,
Robert Scott,...
- Juliet: "When well-appareled
April on the heel / Of
limping winter treads."
Polyptoton Words derived from the same root in a sentence. "Not as a call to battle...
