paronomasia

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De Sacy noticed the difficulty of the task (p. 283). Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties,[FN#433] not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes.

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  1. noun Word play; punning.
  2. noun A pun.

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  • It's a thing I bought Of a bit of a chit of a boy i' the mid o' the day I like to dock the smaller parts-o-speech As we curtail the already cur-tailed cur You catch the paronomasia, play 'po' words Did, rather, i' the pre-Landseerian days Well, to my muttons. —  A Nonsense Anthology
  • De Sacy noticed the difficulty of the task (p. 283). Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties,[FN#433] not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes. —  Arabian nights. English
  • I hope this is not becoming another pun thread: I am doctrinally opposed to the Parousia of paronomasia. —  Sadly, No!
  • [327] The paronomasia is on [Greek: hetairos, heteros]. —  Plutarch's Morals
  • [635] The paronomasia is as follows. —  Plutarch's Morals
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  1. Latin, from Greek paronomasiā, from paronomazein, to call by a different name : para-, beside; see para-1 + onomazein, to name; see onomastic.

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  1. from Latin paronomasia, from Greek παρονομασία, a slight change in the form or use of a word, a pun, from παρονομάζειν form a word by a slight change, from παρά, beside, + ὀνομάζειν, name, from ο̄νομα, name.
 

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