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/ploh"see/, n. Rhet.the repetition of a word or phrase to gain special emphasis or to indicate an extension of meaning, as in Ex. 3:14: "I am that I am."[1580-90; earlier ploche < LL ploce < Gk ploké plaiting, akin to plékein to plait]
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the emphatic repetition of a word, with particular reference to its special significance (as in “a wife who was a wife indeed”). In rhetoric the term signifies the repetition of a word in an altered grammatical function, as in the line “Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death?” from William Blake's poem Jerusalem (1804), in which the word sleep is used as both a verb and a noun. The term also refers to such repetition in general, as in the phrases “pin the pin on” or “dance the dance.” Compare anadiplosis.* * *
Universalium. 2010.
