ploce

See also: Ploče

English
Examples (rhetoric)

In that great victory, Caesar was Caesar!
Make war upon themselves - brother to brother / Blood to blood, self against self.
- Richard III, by Shakespeare
Let the staff be staff, and let Reagan be Reagan.

Etymology

From Latin plŏcē, from Ancient Greek πλοκή (plokḗ, “complication”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈplɒsi/, /ˈpləʊsi/

Noun

ploce (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which a word is repeated so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality.

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