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polyptoton?

• notnaut 2y ago
  Epanalepsis? Chiasmus? Why are all rhetorical devices given such arcane names?
  • uoaei 2y ago
    Rhetoric was invented in Greece
  • riskable 2y ago
    > arcane names That's why they're magic! If people used these words every day they'd end up starting fires or summoning demons.
  • InSteady 2y ago
    Camorepticus? Scremaèlitude? We're just making up words at this point, right?
  • sn9 2y ago
    I think they're just Greek because we got them from the Greeks.
• ceravis 2y ago
  Or possibly antanaclasis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis