TRADUCTIO 同音詞法
Use of two words sounding exactly the same but meaning something entirely different for rhetorical effect.
Hypernym
- WORD-PLAYSPEECH ACT which does not only use words but plays with their form and content.WORD-PLAY
- SPEECH
ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act
performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category
is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided.
CH]
- RHETORICAL
TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of
expressions.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of
expressions.
EX: cur eam rem tam studiose curas, quae tibi multas dabit curas? (ad
Herennium 4.14.21).
REF: Ernesti, Latin, 400; Lausberg 658.
Greek/Latin: Quintilian 9.3.69. This form of word-play is common in the literature and is fondly discussed by the theorists.
Ancient Chinese: The phenomenon appears to be common, and probably is more common that we are able to recognise with the sparsity of sources we have.
REF: Ernesti, Latin, 400; Lausberg 658.
Greek/Latin: Quintilian 9.3.69. This form of word-play is common in the literature and is fondly discussed by the theorists.
Ancient Chinese: The phenomenon appears to be common, and probably is more common that we are able to recognise with the sparsity of sources we have.