What's the difference between ploce and polyptoton?

Ploce


Definition:

  • (n.) A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, "His wife's a wife indeed."

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now, ploce have arrested more than 60 journalists, so many that London is running out of specialist solicitors who can represent them.
  • (2) Postage stamps sold in the capital, Sarajevo, are not valid in the RS; railway engines have to be swapped as a train from Ploce to Zagreb crosses the country, from Croatian, to Bosnian, to Serbian and back to Croatian again (and these countries want to join the EU?).

Polyptoton


Definition:

  • (n.) 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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