Definition and Examples of Antanaclasis (Word Play)

Definition and Examples of Antanaclasis (Word Play) Definition Antanaclasis is an explanatory term for aâ type of verbal play in which single word is utilized in two differentiating (and regularly funny) detects a sort ofâ homonymic joke. Otherwise called the bounce back. Antanaclasisâ appears frequently in maxims, for example, If we dont hang together, we will unquestionably hang independently. See Examples and Observationsâ below. Likewise observe: AntistasisAsteismusDiacopeJanus WordLogologyParonomasiaPloceTraductioWord PlayWords at Play: An Introduction to Recreational Linguistics EtymologyFrom the Greek, reflection, twisting, breaking against Models and Observations What's more, 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 energy, 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 restless 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 disturbing expository figure of speech (antanaclasis) that presently happens to be elegant among promoting duplicate writers.(Tom Wolfe, The Me Decade and the Thi rd Great Awakening) Passing, tho I see him not, is nearAnd feelings of spite 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 explanatory structure can basically characterize the poetics of one MC as well as of a whole faction. Such is the situation with the Diplomats and the non-literal figure of speech of antanaclasis. Antanaclasis is the point at which a solitary word is rehashed on numerous occasions, however each time with an alternate importance. For the Diplomats, the notoriety of it likely started with Camron, the main individual from Dipset, who began his profession 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 unmistakable stages. China white is a specifi c assortment of heroin. White china is a nonexclusive term for dishware, and he at that point proceeds to indicate that his dishware really is from China. What may seem like rubbish or redundancy 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 affectation of the insect temples. It might be close to nothing, Maamsisterjust as a butchers shop might be close to Northumberland House, yet 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 guileless an impersonation of that inconspicuous reasoners utilization of the expository figure called Antanaclasis (or redundancy of similar words from an alternate point of view), that I giggled and my mom grinned. Be that as it may, she grinned respectfully, not thinking about the Antanaclasis, as, laying her hand on Rolands arm, she answered in the yet progressively considerable hyperbole 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! on the off chance that you had done what I wished, I ought t o have had more delight for my money!My poor moms expository ordnance provided no weapon to meet that cunning Aposiopesis, so she dropped the manner of speaking out and out, and went on with that unadorned expert articulation regular to her, as to other incredible 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 contraption or ingenuity, any development which leaves the framework set up, is respected with some doubt. . . . As such, the more evident the play on words to the peruser (paying little heed to what accomplishments of resourcefulness went into its creation), the less joy there is to be gotten from it. This is maybe why antanaclasis, the figure wherein 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 shrewd into being astute smart. This hasnt consistently been the situation. In the Renaissance, conspicuousness was no obstacle to happiness: an incredible inverse, in fact.(Sophie Read, Puns: Serious Wordplay. Renaissance Figures of Speech, ed. by Sylvia Adamson et al,. Cambridge University Press, 2008) Elocution: a tan-ACK-la-sister