OK, the figure in that last post was supposed to reside in the line "Nothing says nothing like nothing", i.e., in the use of the word "nothing" in more than one sense, but I forgot the name for the figure. That's what I get for taking so long to post again!
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Antanaclasis: Reuse of a word within the same sentence where the meaning change sense.
But it's also Paregmenon: Repetition of a word and its cognates in relatively short sequence.
And Paregmenon is just another way to say Polyptoton.
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