Ant'an-a-clā'sis, n.

n. [Gr. ἀντανάκλασις, from ἀντί and ἀνάκλασις, a bending back and breaking. See ANACLASTIC.] (Rhet.) (a.) A figure which consists in the designed use of one and the same word in two different senses in the same connection, so as to produce a pleasant effect upon the mind; a play upon words; as, whilst we live, let us live. Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft. Gibbs. (b.) A repetition of words, beginning a sentence, after a parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, &c.