Word play
Word play is a literary technique in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work. Puns, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names are common examples of word play.
See also
- Anagram
- Apronym aka "aptronym"
- Chronogram
- Constrained writing
- Crab canon
- Figure of speech
- Holorime
- Kenning
- Letter bank
- Lipogram
- Mondegreen
- Oxymoron
- Pangram
- Palindrome
- Portmanteau
- Pun
- Rebus
- Spoonerism
- Transcription (linguistics)
- Verbing
- Wit
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