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- Shelley combines polyptoton with periphrastic naming, which is the technique of referring to someone using several indirect names.
- 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 intricacies of one's own identity.
- An alternative way to utilize the stylistic device is to develop polyptoton over the course of an entire novel, which is done in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
- Does that work ? ( while I know plaudo isn't the most accurate verb for praise, it makes a nice polyptoton with Plautus ) Thanks ! talk ) 21 : 04, 13 December 2011 ( UTC)
- In inflected languages polyptoton is the same word being repeated but appearing each time in a different case . ( for example, " Iuppiter, " " Iovis, " " Iovi, " " Iovem, " " Iove " [ in Latin being the nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative forms of " Iuppiter " ( the god Jupiter ), respectively ] ).
- The form is relatively common in Latin Christian poetry and prose in a construction called the superlative genitive, in phrases such as sanctum sanctorum ( " holy of holies " ), and found its way into languages such as Old English, which naturally favored the alliteration that is part and parcel of polyptoton in fact, polyptoton is " much more prevalent in Old English verse than in Latin verse . " The specific superlative genitive in Old English, however, occurs only in Latinate Christian poems, not in secular poetry.