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In rhetoric, antanaclasis (from Greek antanáklasis, meaning reflection, echo) 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's 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)
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we'll all hang separately." —Benjamin Franklin
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll 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 (External Link)
"Working hard or hardly working?"
"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.
"'Stop or I'll shoot!' 'Shoot and I'll stop!'" - Sweeney Todd

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