ANTANACLASIS

ANTANACLA'SIS, noun [Gr. a driving back.]1. In rhetoric, a figure, which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, whilst we live, let us live. Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.2. It is also a repetition of words, beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, shall that heart, (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them, ) shall that heart, etc.

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‖Ant′an‐a‐cla″sis (�), n. [[Gr. �; � + � a bending back and breaking. See Anaclastic.]] (Rhet.) (a) A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft. (b) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.