1. Noun
A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."
2. Noun
repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence; "polyptoton such as ‘my own heart's heart’"
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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