Definition and Examples of Antanaclasis (Word Play)

Definition and Examples of Antanaclasis (Word Play) Definition Antanaclasis is a logical term for aâ type of verbal play in which single word is utilized in two differentiating (and frequently funny) detects a sort ofâ homonymic quip. Otherwise called the bounce back. Antanaclasisâ appears frequently in adages, for example, If we dont hang together, we will definitely hang independently. See Examples and Observationsâ below. Additionally observe: AntistasisAsteismusDiacopeJanus WordLogologyParonomasiaPloceTraductioWord PlayWords at Play: An Introduction to Recreational Linguistics EtymologyFrom the Greek, reflection, bowing, breaking against Models and Observations Also, theres bars on the corners and bars on the heart.(Tim McGraw, Where The Green Grass Grows)People in a hurry . . . go for Coke.(advertisement for Coca Cola)If you arent terminated with eagerness, you will be terminated with enthusiasm.(Vince Lombardi) Viola: Save thee, companion, and thy music! Dost thou live by thy tabour?Clown: No, sir, I live by the church.Viola: Art thou a churchman?Clown: No such issue, sir: I do live by the congregation; for I do live at my home, and my home doth remain by the church.(William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 1)For each lady developing on edge about diminishing hair, there are thousands developing it back.(advertisement for Rogaine)At first look, Shirley Polykoffs sloganIf Ive just a single life, let me live it as a blonde!seems like only another case of a shallow and aggravating expository figure of speech (antanaclasis) that currently happens to be trendy among publicizing duplicate writers.(Tom Wolfe, The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening) Passing, tho I see him not, is nearAnd feelings of resentment me my eightieth year.Now I would give him all these lastFor one that fifty have run past.Ah! He strikes all things, all alike,But deals: those he won't strike.(Walter Savage Landor, Age) Antanaclasis in Hip HopRarely is it that a solitary expository structure can basically characterize the poetics of one MC as well as of a whole club. Such is the situation with the Diplomats and the metaphorical figure of speech of antanaclasis. Antanaclasis is the point at which a solitary word is rehashed on numerous occasions, yet each time with an alternate importance. For the Diplomats, the prevalence of it likely started with Camron, the main individual from Dipset, who began his vocation rapping close by Mase. Consider the accompanying lines off one of his blend tape discharges: I flip China White,/my dishes white china/from China. Playing with only two words, he renders them in a few particular changes. China white is a specific as sortment of heroin. White china is a conventional term for dishware, and he at that point proceeds to indicate that his dishware really is from China. What may seem like drivel or reiteration for sound alone before long uncovers itself as an expository figure in action.(Adam Bradley, Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop. BasicCivitas, 2009) From Antanaclasis to AposiopesisHem! again said the frugal Roland, with a slight emphasis of the creepy crawly temples. It might be close to nothing, Maamsisterjust as a butchers shop might be close to Northumberland House, however there is a tremendous arrangement among nothing and that next neighbor you have given it.This discourse was so similar to one of my fathersso credulous an impersonation of that unpretentious reasoners utilization of the explanatory figure called Antanaclasis (or redundancy of similar words from an alternate point of view), that I chuckled and my mom grinned. In any case, she grinned respectfully, not thinking about the Antanaclasis, as, laying her hand on Rolands arm, she answered in the yet progressively impressive interesting expression called Epiphonema (or outcry), Yet, with all your economy, you would have had usTut! cried my uncle, repelling the Epiphonema with an excellent Aposiopesis (or severing), tut! in the event that you had done what I wished, I ought to have had more delight for my money!My poor moms expository ordnance provided no weapon to meet that guileful Aposiopesis, so she dropped the manner of speaking by and large, and went on with that unadorned expert articulation normal to her, as to other extraordinary budgetary reformers.(Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Caxtons: A Family Picture, 1849) Genuine Word PlayThe present day reasonableness favors the mechanics of an expository impact to be avoided see; anything which bears a resemblance to invention or ingenuity, any development which leaves the platform set up, is respected with some doubt. . . . At the end of the day, the more evident the play on words to the peruser (paying little heed to what accomplishments of resourcefulness went into its creation), the less delight there is to be gotten from it. This is maybe why antanaclasis, the figure where a word happens and is then rehashed from an alternate point of view, has never been restored . . .; the reiteration hails the impacts, and it conceals from being cunning into being smart astute. This hasnt consistently been the situation. In the Renaissance, conspicuousness was no hindrance to euphoria: an incredible inverse, in fact.(Sophie Read, Puns: Serious Wordplay. Renaissance Figures of Speech, ed. by Sylvia Adamson et al,. Cambridge University Press, 2008) Articulation: a tan-ACK-la-sister