WORD-PLAY-POLYPTOTON-PHRASAL  玩 字法﹣詞組同、用法不同

WORD-PLAY in which the same expression is used in two distinct meanings.

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 locations: 2
    • 韓非子 非其士民不能死也， 上不能故也

      不能 is used in two contrasting meanings and syntactic frames.

    • 論語 『如之何， 如之何者 吾末如之何也已矣