Editing Polyptoton (section)

== Historical instances and usages ==
It is also used in [[public speaking]], and several examples can be found in [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]]'s speeches.<ref>{{Cite news|title=A Rhetorical analysis of Winston Churchill's speech: We Shall Fight on the Beaches|url=http://jultika.oulu.fi/files/nbnfioulu-201909182881.pdf}}</ref> 

[[G. K. Chesterton]] frequently employed this device to create [[paradox]]: 
{{quote |text=It is the same with all the powerful of to-day; it is the same, for instance, with the high-placed and high-paid official. Not only is the '''judge''' not '''judicial''', but the '''arbiter''' is not even '''arbitrary'''.|author=G.K. Chesterton, ''The Man on Top'' (1912)<ref name="Farnsworth72">{{harvsp|Farnsworth|2011|p=72}}.</ref>}}

In combination with verbal [[active voice|active]] and [[passive voice]]s, it points out the idea of a latent [[Reciprocity (social and political philosophy)|reciprocity]]:{{quote |text='''Judge''' not, that ye '''be''' not '''judged'''|author=Matthew 7:1<ref name="Farnsworth63">{{harvsp|Farnsworth|2011|p=63}}.</ref>}}

An alternative way to use the device is to develop polyptoton over the course of an entire novel, which is done in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Shelley combines polyptoton with periphrastic naming, which is the technique of referring to someone using several indirect names. The creature in Frankenstein is referred to by many terms, such as "fiend", "devil", "being", and "ogre". However, the first term that Shelley uses in reference to the creature is "wretch". Throughout the novel, various forms of this are used, such as "wretchedly" and "wretchedness", which may be seen as polyptoton.  According to Duyfhuizen, the gradual development of polyptoton in ''Frankenstein'' is significant because it symbolizes the intricacies of one's own identity.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Duyfhuizen | first1 = Bernard | year = 1995 | title = Periphrastic Naming In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | journal = Studies in the Novel | volume = 27 | issue = 4| page = 477 }}</ref>