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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Grice on "metabole" as implicature

polyptoton /
metabole
one word is repeated in different grammatical or syntactical (inflected) forms. A special case of polyptoton is the figura etymologica which repeats two or more words of the same stem
  • There hath he lain for ages, and will lie (Tennyson, The Kraken)
  • […] love is not love
    Which alters when it alteration finds,
    Or bends with the remover to remove. (Shakespeare, Sonnet 116) – figura etymologica

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