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What is this called? Using one word that has a one meaning but then is given new meaning in a subsequent clause or sentence
Looks a bit like a Janus parallelism, a literary feature of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
In a Janus parallelism, "a middle stich of poetry contains a pun, which in one of its meanings ...
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What is this called? Using one word that has a one meaning but then is given new meaning in a subsequent clause or sentence
This is known as a garden path sentence.
a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a parse that ...
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What is this called? Using one word that has a one meaning but then is given new meaning in a subsequent clause or sentence
When an unexpected word comes and changes the meaning, I'd call it subversion. Which is a broader term that doesn't have to specifically refer to the ending of a sentence, but I think it applies here ...
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