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  2. Pun - Wikipedia

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    Punch, 25 February 1914.The cartoon is a pun on the word "Jamaica", which pronunciation [dʒəˈmeɪkə] is a homonym to the clipped form of "Did you make her?". [1] [2]A pun, also known as a paronomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. [3]

  3. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Parenthesis – an explanatory or qualifying word, clause, or sentence inserted into a passage that is not essential to the literal meaning. Parody – comic imitation of something or somebody. Paronomasia – a pun, a play on words, often for humorous effect. Pathos – the emotional appeal to an audience in an argument; one of Aristotle's ...

  4. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Paronomasia: pun in which similar-sounding words but words having a different meaning are used. Pathetic fallacy: ascribing human conduct and feelings to nature. Personification: attributing or applying human qualities to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. Pleonasm: the use of more words than is necessary for clear expression.

  5. Rhetorica ad Herennium - Wikipedia

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    Paronomasia (a term often treated as a formal term for a pun) changes a sound or a letter in a word to make it sound similar to another word with a different meaning; these three figures are most relevant in highly inflected languages with cases like Latin, and the Rhetorica ad Herennium states they are best used in speeches of entertainment.

  6. Paronomasia - Wikipedia

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  7. Trope (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Pun or paronomasia - A form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words. Antanaclasis – The stylistic trope of repeating a single word, but with a different meaning each time; antanaclasis is a common type of pun, and like other kinds of pun, it is often found in slogans.

  8. Parechesis - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, parechesis (παρήχησις) is the repetition of the same sound in several words in close succession. [1]An example of a parechesis is: "He persuades the Pithian (πείθει τὸν Πειθίαν)."

  9. Antanaclasis - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, antanaclasis (/ æ n t ə ˈ n æ k l ə s ɪ s, ˌ æ n t æ n ə ˈ k l æ s ɪ s /; from the Greek: ἀντανάκλασις, antanáklasis, meaning "reflection", [1] from ἀντί anti, "against", ἀνά ana, "up" and κλάσις klásis "breaking") is the literary trope in which a single word or phrase is repeated, but in two different senses. [2]