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POLYPTOTON
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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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