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From Ancient Greek ἀντανάκλασις (antanáklasis, reflection, bending back), from ἀντί (antí, against) + ἀνά (aná, up) + κλάσις (klásis, breaking).

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Examples

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

antanaclasis (countable and uncountable, plural antanaclases)

  1. (rhetoric) The repeated use of the same word or phrase, but with a different meaning each time; a kind of paronomasia.

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