ploce
English edit
Examples (rhetoric) |
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In that great victory, Caesar was Caesar! |
Etymology edit
From Latin plŏcē, from Ancient Greek πλοκή (plokḗ, “complication”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ploce (uncountable)
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which a word is repeated so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality.
Hyponyms edit
- (rhetoric): polyptoton, antanaclasis