Antanaclasis (an’-ta-na-cla’-sis): The repetition of a word or phrase whose meaning changes in the second instance.
When your yacht leaked, you bailed it out. When your business failed, you bailed out.
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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Apocope (a-pok’-o-pe): Omitting a letter or syllable at the end of a word. A kind of metaplasm.
Are you havin a laugh?
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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