# Polyptoton This is the repeated use of one word as in different parts of speech or grammatical structures.[^1] It's a figure of emphasis. It's also called paregmenon.[^2] Greek for "having many cases."[^3] Examples include: - The Beatles' "Please Please Me" - "Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds, / Or bends with the remover to remove." —Shakespeare - "Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." - "But me no buts." —Susanna Centlivre - "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." —Neil Armstrong (also a good example of [[Antithesis]]) [^1]: [[The Elements of Eloquence]] pg. 17 [^2]: [Definition and Examples of Polyptoton in Rhetoric](https://www.thoughtco.com/polyptoton-rhetoric-1691641) [^3]: [polyptoton - Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/polyptoton)