How To Use Paronomasia In A Sentence
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Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties,433 not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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I'm reviewing important terms, including "paronomasia," which is the cocktail party word for "pun.
Archive 2007-02-01
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It's just the adjective from paronomasia which means any form of word-play, like a pun.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Well, seems it's a factitious word, formed from a union of paronomasia and mania...' Dalziel ground his teeth and Pascoe hurried on.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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More than most linguistic modes, such as paronomasia and malapropism, quasi malediction has diametric force.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
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But then again, Tom Stoppard (who cowrote the film with Terry Gilliam) always seemed to prefer paronomasia to his fellow men anyway.
Joshua David Stein: WALL-E and The Fall of Man
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Similarly, Japheth is in the blessing by an equally apt paronomasia, associated with the analogous root pathah, "be open"; Hifil imperfect jussive yapht, "cause to be open" -- "grant ample territory.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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I'm sitting here trying to decide whether a particular specimen of paronomasia is to be considered polyptoton or antanaclasis.
I love the classical roots of education, but...
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I'm sitting here trying to decide whether a particular specimen of paronomasia is to be considered polyptoton or antanaclasis.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Warden, “grounded on a vain play upon words — a most idle paronomasia.”
The Monastery
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[869] A paronomasia on [Greek: genesis] as if [Greek: epi gên neusis].
Plutarch's Morals
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That humorous lyric mentioned earlier, ‘You can't have your Kate and Edith, too’ and the song ‘Overnight Male’ demonstrate paronomasia, use of words alike in sound but different in meaning.
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He has said of his pun-heavy brand of comedy: If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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Here, as throughout the poem, her paronomasia acts as a device for eliciting the sensitive connections between words and our physical response to them.
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The last example also contains paronomasia; here, the pun is on possessed meaning both having come into possession and unreasonably determined.
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Scrotes allowed, nevertheless, there was something in what MacMurrough had said and by way of illustrating this allowance he quoted from Augustine who had polluted the vein of friendship with the filth of desire—a phrase, Scrotes remarked, which would mean nothing to the Greeks, for whom friendship and desire were congenial if MacMurrough would forgive the paronomasia bedfellows.
At Swim, Two Boys
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The peculiarity is also called water and grain, which gives rise to a host of double-entendres, puns, paronomasias and conceits more or less frigid.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Michael Wood's essay, clearly a labor of love, discusses Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres, as well as its ambitious translation, concentrating on the author's Joycean ‘besetting virtue,’ paronomasia.
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Whereupon, a spandrel skirrs, having put the ‘maze’ in paronomasia.
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Other details of Time's style, including strung-out attributive adjectives (bahuvrihi, to linguists), puns (paronomasia), and inverted word order (anastrophe) are also described in the Introduction, which one could only wish were more detailed.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
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This run of pointed paronomasia comes to a head in ‘fetters,’ which gathers to itself the accumulated sense, minted in the interests of others, of discursive abstractions that bind.
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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
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Based on the theory of cognitive linguistics, this paper analyzes paronomasia allegorical saying from the perspective of phonetic metaphor to find a new understanding mechanism for it.
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Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties,433 not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
