polyptoton

polyptoton

      the rhetorical repetition within the same sentence of a word in a different case, inflection, or voice or of etymologically related words in different parts of speech. The device is exemplified in the following lines from T.S. Eliot (Eliot, T.S.)'s poem “The Dry Salvages” (1941):

There is no end of it, the voiceless wailing,
No end to the withering of withered flowers,
To the movement of pain that is painless and motionless,
To the drift of the sea and the drifting wreckage,
The bone's prayer to Death its God. Only the hardly, barely prayable
Prayer of the one Annunciation.

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  • Polyptoton — is the stylistic scheme in which words derived from the same root are repeated (e.g. strong and strength ). A related stylistic device is antanaclasis, in which the same word is repeated, but each time with a different sense. In inflected… …   Wikipedia

  • Polyptoton — Pol yp*to ton, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? having, or being in, many cases; poly s many + ? case.] (Rhet.) A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson s line, My own heart s heart, and ownest own,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Polyptōton — (Rhet.), Wiederholung eines Hauptwortes in verschiedenen Casus, z.B. Pater hic tuus? patrem hunc appellas? patris tu hujus filius es? …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Polyptoton — Polyptoton, rhetorische Figur, die Wiederholung eines Haupt oder Zeitworts in verschiedenen Flexionsformen …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • Polyptoton — Po|lyp|to|ton* das; s, ...ta <über gleichbed. lat. polyptoton aus gr. polýptōton, Neutrum von polýptōtos »mit od. in vielen Fällen«> Wiederholung desselben Wortes in einem Satz in verschiedenen Kasus (z. B. der alte Urstand der Natur kehrt… …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • Polyptoton — Das Polyptoton (von griech. πολύς = viel und πτωσις = Fall, Kasus) ist eine rhetorische Figur. Es bezeichnet die Wiederholung eines Wortes bzw. des Wortstammes mit Abwandlung der Flexionsform. Beispiele Cicero, Laelius de amicitia, Kapitel 5: Sed …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • polyptoton — noun /ˌpɑl.əpˈtoʊ.tɑn/ A stylistic scheme in which words from the same root are used together, or a word is repeated in a different inflection or case …   Wiktionary

  • Polyptoton — Po|lỵ|pto|ton auch: Po|lỵp|to|ton 〈n.; s, pto|ta; Rhet.〉 Wiederholung desselben Wortes in einem anderen Kasus, z. B. Auge um Auge [<grch. polys „viel“ + ptosis „Kasus, Fall“] * * * Polỵptoton   [griechisch, zu polýptotos »in vielen Kasus«]… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Polyptoton — Gentagelse af samme ord i flere former. Ex: bøgernes bog …   Danske encyklopædi

  • Polyptoton — Po|lỵ|pto|ton auch: Po|lỵp|to|ton 〈n.; Gen.: s, Pl.: pto|ta; Rhet.〉 Stilfigur, bei der dasselbe Wort in unterschiedlichen Kasus wieder aufgenommen wird, z. B. »homo homini lupus« [Etym.: <Poly… + grch. ptosis »Kasus, Fall«] …   Lexikalische Deutsches Wörterbuch

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