Antanaclasis vs Syllepsis - What's the difference?
antanaclasis | syllepsis |
(rhetoric) The repeated use of the same word or phrase, but with a different meaning each time; a kind of pun.
(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity
(botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, without the formation of a bud or period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
