Did you mayhaps mean one of these? aseismic, asteism, asterisks, asterism
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. rhetoric Witty dialog or response.
- n. rhetoric In dialog, a retort based on a punning use of another speaker's word or metaphor.
Etymologies
- From Latin astĕïsmŏs ("the more refined style of speaking"), from Ancient Greek ἀστείσμός (asteismos) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“(the transposition of letters in a word), asteismus (a figure of reply; a facetious or mocking answer), and figures of deliberate obscurity (enigma, noema, schematismus) are cited by such”
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Rhetorical Devices
trope, wellerism, antimetabole, syncope, open-list, accismus, abating, abbaser, abecedarian, abcisio, ablatio, abominatio and 425 more...
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Meta-words
synecdoche, metonymy, paronomasia, polyptoton, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, anaphora, anastrophe, antimetabole, antistrophe, antithesis, chiasmus and 9 more...
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Rhetorical Terms
I love learning about rhetoric. I am a dork.
anaphora, anastrophe, antimetabole, chiasmus, antithesis, aposiopesis, apposition, enthymeme, syllogism, tautology, merism, logos and 41 more...
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