APPROXIMATIO
WORD-PLAY consisting in the deliberate slight phonetic change in a common idiom to create a new meaning.
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.
This is not uncommon in Greek and Latin, and it needs to be studied in
ancient China.
- Dictionary of Literary Devices. Gradus, A-Z ( DUPRIEZ 1991) p.