Wordie: Amaranthine

7 months ago mollusque said:

Thanks oroboros! I hadn't heard of antanaclasis and it's close to what I seek. The only difference seems to be that in antanaclasis the word with a double meaning is repeated. I'd been toying with polysemy also, but that seems to refer to different meanings in different contexts. Maybe what I want is "merged antanaclasis" or "simultaneous polysemy".

7 months ago oroboros said:

Mollusque:

"It is indeed a kind of pun called the ANTANACLASIS (an-ta-NA-cla-sis), or double entendre. Not the joking, play-on-words kind of pun, the antanaclasis strikes a rhetorical chord, causing the word to vibrate with its double meaning -- a bicorn, if you will."

--From: Ask Figaro (figarospeech.com)

8 months ago seanahan said:

The closest I can think of would be to say bon mot, but it doesn't describe this specific situation.

8 months ago mollusque said:

In The Last Unicorn, Peter Beagle described the unicorn as having amarathine eyes. This uses both meanings of amarathine simultaneously (undying and a purple color) without it being a pun or zeugma. Is there a word for this literary device?

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