Technique? (1 Viewer)

[pomsky]

Hey guys!
What's the technique called when you find two similar looking words (side by side in fact) but have entirely different meanings?
i.e "becoming that of the ruling and the ruled, as opposed to the elected and electorate" Is it an antanaclasis? And could you guys also give a brief explanation on the effects? (just to help me out lol)

TY

 

[Chatoyance]

Polyptoton

http://literarydevices.net/polyptoton/

 

[mreditor16]

Perhaps homonym?

EDIT: think it means the words are spelt in the same way, but have different connotations.

like yeah, it probs doesn't exactly coincide to what you wanted, but this was the best I could think of (then again, I'm a pleb english student )

its definitely not homonym. homonym is when you have two unrelated words, which sound similar. here, its different forms of the same stem/word - hence, polyptoton as pointed out by Chatoyance.

 

[pomsky]

Whoop, thanks guys : ))