Definition:
Repetition of a word or a name with a new or more specific sense. See also:
Etymology:
From the Greek, "weaving, plaiting"Examples:
- "In others' works thou dost but mend the style,
And arts with thy sweet graces graced be;
But thou art all my art, and dost advance
As high as learning my rude ignorance."
(William Shakespeare, Sonnet 78, "So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse") - "We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
(Benjamin Franklin) - "What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson) - "You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh.
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by."
(Herman Hupfeld, "As Time Goes By") - "When you look good, we look good."
(Vidal Sassoon advertising slogan) - "Computers help people help people."
(advertising slogan for IBM) - "I am stuck on Band-Aid, and Band-Aid's stuck on me."
(advertising slogan) - "If it wasn't in Vogue, it wasn't in vogue."
(promotional slogan for Vogue magazine) - "Cats like Felix like Felix."
(advertising slogan for Felix cat food) - "The future is no place to place your better days."
(Dave Matthews, "Cry Freedom") - "First she ruins my life. And then she ruins my LIFE!"
(Maggie O'Connell, on her mother, in Northern Exposure) - "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
- "When we come to work, we come to work."
- "The best surprise is no surprise at all."
(advertising slogan of Holiday Inn) - "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
(Chief Justice John Roberts, June 28, 2007)
Pronunciation: PLO-chay
Also Known As: antanaclasis, copulatio
