Polyptolon

__//Polyptolon//__



It can also mean that the same word is repeated, but in a different sense.
 * D** **efinition::** //Polyptolon//, Repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence.


 * Origin::** From the Greek, "use of the same word in different cases"

-Many **examples** of this literary rhetoric appeared in "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Elliot. -This story is part of a video game that can be played [|here.]


 * Examples** from text:

1) "I know the voices __dying with a dying fall__..."

2) "And when I formulated, sprawling on a __pin__, when I am __pinned__ and wriggling on the wall"

All quotations are from (The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock, Elliot)

JB