POLYPTOTON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence

Example:

My own heart's heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("polyptoton" is a kind of...):

repetition (the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device)

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