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*"If you don't ''get it'', you don't ''get it''." —''[[The Washington Post]]'' slogan |
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*"She is nice from far, but far from nice!" —Popular. |
*"She is nice from far, but far from nice!" —Popular. |
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*"We aim to please. You aim too please!" -Sign in store toilets |
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*"Just because a record has a groove / Don't make it in the groove." — from the song [[Sir Duke]] by [[Stevie Wonder]] |
*"Just because a record has a groove / Don't make it in the groove." — from the song [[Sir Duke]] by [[Stevie Wonder]] |
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*"If it's not on, it's not on". —Advertisements promoting the use of condoms by encouraging prospective sexual partners to refuse to participate unless a condom is used. |
*"If it's not on, it's not on". —Advertisements promoting the use of condoms by encouraging prospective sexual partners to refuse to participate unless a condom is used. |
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In rhetoric, antanaclasis (Template:Pron-en ant-ə-NAK-lə-sis[1] or /ˌæntænəˈklæsɨs/ ANT-an-ə-KLAS-iss; from the Greek: ἀντανάκλασις, antanáklasis, meaning "reflection"[2]) is the stylistic trope of repeating a single word, but with a different meaning each time. Antanaclasis is a common type of pun, and like other kinds of pun, it is often found in slogans.
Examples
- A famous example of antanaclasis is seen in William Shakespeare's Henry V when the King sends the French ambassadors back to their master with an answer to the insulting gift of tennis-balls. He says, "for many a thousand widows/ Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands; Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down;" (HENRY V, I, ii, 284-286)
- Shakespeare also employed antanaclasis in Hamlet, when Polonius doles out advice to his daughter, Ophelia: "Tender yourself more dearly...or...you'll tender me a fool." (Hamlet, I, iii, 107-110)
- "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." —Benjamin Franklin
- "If you aren't fired (up) with enthusiasm, you will be fired, with enthusiasm." —Vince Lombardi
- "The long cigarette that's long on flavor." —from an advertisement for Pall Mall cigarettes
- "Sorry, Charlie. StarKist doesn't want tunas with good taste — StarKist wants tunas that taste good." —from 1980s StarKist tuna advertisements
- "Put out the light, then put out the light." —Shakespeare's Othello
- "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." —Groucho Marx [3]
- "If you don't get it, you don't get it." —The Washington Post slogan
- "She is nice from far, but far from nice!" —Popular.
- "Just because a record has a groove / Don't make it in the groove." — from the song Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder
- "If it's not on, it's not on". —Advertisements promoting the use of condoms by encouraging prospective sexual partners to refuse to participate unless a condom is used.
- "The odds are good, but the goods are odd." —Said about one's chances of finding a date in environments where others are predominately of the opposite sex (e.g., majority male or female college campuses) [4]
References
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press.
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(help) (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) - ^ Antanaklasis, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, at Perseus project
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- "Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations". Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- Corbett, Edward P.J. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Oxford University Press, New York, 1971.