WORD-PLAY-PARONOMASIA 擬聲法
Use 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.
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.
REF: Hofmann and Szantyr p. 709-712 gives a fine historical survey for Latin. Lausberg 637 and 661f.
Greek/Latin: Common as a pheonomenon, and currently discussed in the literature.
Ancient Chinese: Ubiquitous is many kinds of texts. Notoriously so in Ba2ihu3to1ng and in some early dictionaries.
- Lateinische Syntax und Stilistik
(
HOFMANN-SZANTYR
1965)
p.
709 - The Speeches of Cicero
(
MACKENDRICK
1995)
p.
517