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Autumn Polyptoton Poem, October 24
Autumn Polyptoton Poem, October 24
Autumn Polyptoton Poem
The leaves crackle as I walk down the walkway
Watching for small creatures to appear from under the leaves.
Mist covers my shoulders as the wind wisps through the path.
No sound other than the crunch of my feet
Crushing more leaves, leaving only fragments of summer behind.
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Passing Rain
The echo of distant rain started to muffle the air and, all too soon, distance was lost to cloud closing in like wet sheep, and sheeting rain that dripped and drummed, persistent and loud on the roof.
The willow in the garden blazed with green moss and elaborate dripping lichen, while I stood dazed at the window in the kitchen, distantly hugging a cup of hot tea, straining to listen as the rain…
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Lesser Known Literary Terms: Polyptoton
Can you think of other famous examples?
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Polyptoton means repeating the same word or root word in different ways.
There’s no use in looking back whenever your back is already facing that way
In between the sheets she found the words to write on those empty sheets of paper she always found staring back at her.
Just like the dark unforgiving ceiling of an untrusting cave, all at once she felt the pressures and turmoil of life cave in on her and she snapped back into the reality of what a dark and unforgiving life she truly lead.
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Re: Bernard Duyfhuizen's "Periphrastic Naming In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." (Studies In The Novel 27.4)
Mary Shelley combines polyptoton with periphrastic naming, which is the technique of referring to someone using several indirect names. The creature in Frankenstein is referred to by many names, such as "fiend", "devil", "being", and "ogre". However, the first name that Shelley uses in reference to the creature is "wretch". Throughout the novel, various forms of the term are used, such as "wretchedly" and "wretchedness", which is indicative of polyptoton. According to Duyfhuizen, the gradual development of polyptoton in Frankenstein is significant because it symbolizes the intracacies of one's own identity.
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Who shall watch the watchmen themselves? (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
Juvenal, Satires (VI, lines 347–8)
Polyptoton is the stylistic scheme in which words derived from the same root are repeated.
But in this desert country they may see the land being rendered useless by overuse.
Joseph Wood Krutch, The Voice of the Desert
Polyptoton is the stylistic scheme in which words derived from the same root are repeated
Word of the Day
Polyptoton, n. /pȯl’ip-tō’ton/ - In rhetoric, a form of speech in which a word is repeated in different cases, numbers, genders, and the like.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged New Twentieth Century Dictionary, 1956
