Definition and Examples of Antanaclasis (Word Play)

Definition and Examples of Antanaclasis (Word Play) Definition Antanaclasis is an expository 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 adages, for example, If we dont hang together, we will without a doubt 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 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 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 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 simply another case of a shallow and aggravating expository figure of speech (antanaclasis) that currently happens to be popular among promoting duplicate writers.(Tom Wolfe, The Me Decade and t he Third Great Awakening) Passing, tho I see him not, is nearAnd hard feelings 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 logical structure can basically characterize the poetics of one MC as well as of a whole inner circle. Such is the situation with the Diplomats and the allegorical figure of speech of antanaclasis. Antanaclasis is the point at which a solitary word is rehashed on various occasions, yet each time with an alternate significance. For the Diplomats, the notoriety 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 unmistakable stages. China white is a specific assort ment of heroin. White china is a conventional term for dishware, and he at that point proceeds to determine that his dishware really is from China. What may seem like hogwash 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 intonation 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 huge 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 unobtrusive reasoners utilization of the expository figure called Antanaclasis (or redundancy of similar words from an alternate point of view), that I snickered 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 imposing interesting expression called Epiphonema (or shout), 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 helpless moms expository ordnance provided no weapon to meet that sly Aposiopesis, so she dropped the way of talking out and out, and went on with that unadorned expert articulation characteristic to her, as to other incredible budgetary reformers.(Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Caxtons: A Family Picture, 1849) Genuine Word PlayThe present day reasonableness lean towards the mechanics of a logical impact to be escaped see; anything which bears a resemblance to creation or guile, 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 mind to what accomplishments of resourcefulness went into its manufacture), the less joy 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 signals the impacts, and it conceals from being smart into being cunning sharp. This hasnt consistently been the situation. In the Renaissance, conspicuousness was no obstacle to satisfaction: a remarkable 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