A ploce () is a figure of speech in which a word is repeated, with separation between them, in which the second iteration possess a different meaning, significance, or emphasis. Ploce is also sometimes spelled as ploche or ploke and may be referred to as conduplicatio, conexio, copulatio, diaphora, doubler, epanados, swift repeate, traductio.
Definition Ploce has been defined in several ways according to different sources; the following are some given definitions:
A repetition of a word in which the initial definition is more particular and then generalized A polyptoton, or a word repeated with different inflections A diacope, or a word repeated with a small separation A repetition of a proper name An epizeuxis, or general repetition of a single word
Ploce can also be conflated with antanaclasis, a type of pun, which a similar definition (in which a word is repeated in two different senses), but they are often kept separate.
Examples "I am that I am" — Exodus 3:14 "Make war upon themselves— brother to brother / Blood to blood, self against self" — Richard III, by Shakespeare "My lovely one I fain would love thee much, but all my Love is none at all I see" — Edward Taylor, "Preparatory Meditation 12" Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent — Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook "I know what's going on. I may be from Ohio, but I'm not from Ohio" — Daisy, Bowfinger "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race" — John Roberts, 2007
See also Repetition (rhetorical device) Epizeuxis Diacope Polyptoton Antanaclasis
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