antanaclasis
noun • /antaNAclasis/ • the stylistic trope of repeating a single word, but with a different meaning each time.
For example: Groucho Marx’s “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”
from the Greek ἀντανάκλασις, “reflection”
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