Hypernym

• 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.

Hyponym

• AMBIGUITASWORD-PLAY which mainly consists in the deliberate artistic and playful display of expressions with several meanings within the given context, often but not always with sustained ambiguity. 雙關法 Sustained ambiguity as a deliberate rhetorical ploy. Greek: amphibolia.
  • ADIANOETA　AMBIGUITAS in which there is one obvious meaning and another hidden intended meaning.An expression that has an obvious superficial meaning and another unsuspected and underlying secret meaning.Greek: adianoeeton
  • AMBIGUITAS-OBSCOENA　黃色雙關法 AMBIGUITAS in the form of deliberate unresolved ambiguity which demonstratively leaves room for a reading which is obscene.Commonly known as "amphibolia obscoena".
• ACROSTICONWORD PLAY in which the first letters of each line combine to make a word suggested by the series of lines. Text in which the first letters of each line combine to make up an intended expression, also called acrostic.
• PALINDROMEWORD-PLAY in which a text may be read from beginning to end but also from the end to the beginning.　A word, verse, or sentence that reads the same when the letters composing it are taken in the reverse order. (OED)
• APPROXIMATIOWORD-PLAY consisting in the deliberate slight phonetic change in a common idiom to create a new meaning.
• WORD-PLAY-PARONOMASIAUse of similar-sounding words for for stylistic effect, WORD-PLAY in MacKendrick 1995.Traditionally sometimes called PARECHESIS. (Incidentally: often misspelt PARANOMASIA by some sinologists.) See also POLYPTOTON.
• ANAGRAM
• PALINDROME-HUIWEN回文法　A piece of text that also makes sense when read in the reverse order from back to front.
• TRADUCTIOUse of two words sounding exactly the same but meaning something entirely different for rhetorical effect.
• WORD-PLAY-PARONOMASTIC.GLOSSThe explanation or glossing of a word X by the use of another word Y which is phonetically similar to X.
• WORD-PLAY-POLYPTOTON詞同、用法不同反復法 Using the same word several times in different grammatical forms or distinct grammatical functions in the same sentence/context.
• WORD-PLAY-POLYPTOTON-PHRASALWORD-PLAY in which the same expression is used in two distinct meanings.
• ZEUGMAWORD-PLAY in the form of conjoining nouns that do not semantically belong together in one and the same construction. Omission of a word which is present in the same sentence, this omission usually involving PARALLELISM.NOTE: the term is also used as a general term for HYPOZEUGMA, MESOZEUGMA, PROZEUGMA, for which see the bibliography indicated here. [Add biblio the the ZEUGMA here intended! See Lausberg CH]See also PROZEUGMA, HYPOZEUGMA, MESOZEUGMA.
  • PROZEUGMA　後省略法 Ellipsis of a word which reoccurs later within the same clause, sentence, or sometimes even wider context. This is so common that one need not go on registering it.
  • HYPOZEUGMA　先省略法 Ellipsis of a word or expression which is mentioned once and understood/omitted afterwards in the same clause, sentence, or sometimes even wider context.
  • MESOZEUGMA　ZEUGMA in the form of the omission of an expression which is present both before and after in the same context.
  • lPROZEUGMA　ZEUGMA in the form of the omission of a word that comes later in the same context.
  • ZEUGMA-MESOZEUGMA　中省略法 Ellipsis of a word which reoccurs before and afterwards within the same clause, sentence, or sometimes even wider context.
• GRAPHIC WORDPLAY