Antanaclasis

Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.

Compare antanaclasis with other words:

antanaclasis vs. ploce

antanaclasis vs. pun