Polyptoton, the device which repeats the same word in a different grammatical case, continues to enliven the emotional interplay in the sestet. |
This short speech contains such diverse figures of speech as prosopopeia, chiasmus, anadiplosis and polyptoton, which an early modern schoolboy would like to show off. |
He would be able to label these devices as antimetabole, polyptoton, epistrophe, antithesis, epanalepsis, anaphora, polysyndeton, anastrophe, etc. |
She was trained in the art of rhetoric, and her use of anaphora, epistrophe, polyptoton, et al, is elegant – but never merely elegant. |
Supporting this point are the examples in the text of epanalepsis, disjunctio, polyptoton, epizeuxis, and symploce. |