antanaclasis

As nouns the difference between antanaclasis and polysemy

is that antanaclasis is (rhetoric) the repeated use of the same word or phrase, but with a different meaning each time; a kind of pun while polysemy is (semantics) the ability of words, signs and symbols to have multiple meanings.

In rhetoric terms the difference between antanaclasis and paronomasia

is that antanaclasis is the repeated use of the same word or phrase, but with a different meaning each time; a kind of pun while paronomasia is a pun or play on words.

In rhetoric terms the difference between antanaclasis and syllepsis

is that antanaclasis is the repeated use of the same word or phrase, but with a different meaning each time; a kind of pun while syllepsis is 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.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and antanaclasis

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while antanaclasis is (rhetoric) the repeated use of the same word or phrase, but with a different meaning each time; a kind of pun.

Asteismus is a hyponym of antanaclasis.

In rhetoric terms the difference between antanaclasis and asteismus

is that antanaclasis is the repeated use of the same word or phrase, but with a different meaning each time; a kind of pun while asteismus is in dialog, a retort based on a punning use of another speaker's word or metaphor.