Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a new meaning. The term is often used to refer specifically to mishearings of song lyrics (cf. soramimi).
Onomatopoeia: a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing
Phono-semantic matching: camouflaged/pun borrowing in which a foreign word is matched with a phonetically and semantically similar pre-existent native word (related to folk etymology)
Portmanteau: a new word that fuses two words or morphemes
Retronym: creating a new word to denote an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else
Oxymoron: a combination of two contradictory terms
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This is a list of techniques used in word play This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items August 2008 Techniques that involve the phonetic values of words Engrish Chinglish Homonym words with same sounds and same spellings but with different meanings Homograph words with same spellings but with different meanings Homophone words with same sounds but with different meanings Homophonic translation Mondegreen a mishearing usually unintentional as a homophone or near homophone that has as a result acquired a new meaning The term is often used to refer specifically to mishearings of song lyrics cf soramimi Onomatopoeia a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing Phonetic reversal Rhyme a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words Alliteration matching consonants sounds at the beginning of words Assonance matching vowel sounds Consonance matching consonant sounds Holorime a rhyme that encompasses an entire line or phrase Spoonerism a switch of two sounds in two different words cf sananmuunnos Same sounding words or phrases fully or approximately homophonous sometimes also referred to as oronyms Techniques that involve the letters Acronym abbreviations formed by combining the initial components in a phrase or names Apronym an acronym that is also a phrase pertaining to the original meaning RAS syndrome repetition of a word by using it both as a word alone and as a part of the acronym Recursive acronym an acronym that has the acronym itself as one of its components Acrostic a writing in which the first letter syllable or word of each line can be put together to spell out another message Mesostic a writing in which a vertical phrase intersects lines of horizontal text Word square a series of letters arranged in the form of a square that can be read both vertically and horizontally Backronym a phrase back formed by treating a word that is originally not an initialism or acronym as one Replacement Backronym a phrase back formed from an existing initialism or acronym that is originally an abbreviation with another meaning Anagram rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase Ambigram a word which can be read just as well mirrored or upside down Blanagram rearranging the letters of a word or phrase and substituting one single letter to produce a new word or phrase Letter bank using the letters from a certain word or phrase as many times as wanted to produce a new word or phrase Jumble a kind of word game in which the solution of a puzzle is its anagram Chronogram a phrase or sentence in which some letters can be interpreted as numerals and rearranged to stand for a particular date Gramogram a word or sentence in which the names of the letters or numerals are used to represent the word Lipogram a writing in which certain letter is missing Univocalic a type of poetry that uses only one vowel Palindrome a word or phrase that reads the same in either direction Pangram a sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet at least once Tautogram a phrase or sentence in which every word starts with the same letter Caesar shift moving all the letters in a word or sentence some fixed number of positions down the alphabetTechniques that involve semantics and the choosing of words Anglish a writing using exclusively words of Germanic origin Auto antonym a word that contains opposite meanings Autogram a sentence that provide an inventory of its own characters Irony Malapropism incorrect usage of a word by substituting a similar sounding word with different meaning Neologism creating new words Phono semantic matching camouflaged pun borrowing in which a foreign word is matched with a phonetically and semantically similar pre existent native word related to folk etymology Portmanteau a new word that fuses two words or morphemes Retronym creating a new word to denote an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else Oxymoron a combination of two contradictory terms Zeugma and Syllepsis the use of a single phrase in two ways simultaneously Pun deliberately mixing two similar sounding words Slang the use of informal words or expressionsTechniques that involve the manipulation of the entire sentence or passage Dog Latin Language game a system of manipulating spoken words to render them incomprehensible to the untrained ear Pig Latin Ubbi dubbi Non sequiturs a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statementTechniques that involve the formation of a name Ananym a name with reversed letters of an existing name Aptronym a name that aptly represents a person or character Charactonym a name which suggests the personality traits of a fictional character Eponym applying a person s name to a place Pseudonym an artificial fictitious name used as an alternative to one s legal name Sobriquet a popularized nicknameTechniques that involves figure of speech Conversion word formation a transformation of a word of one word class into another word class Dysphemism intentionally using a word or phrase with a harsher tone over one with a more polite tone Euphemism intentionally using a word or phrase with a more polite tone over one with a harsher tone Kenning circumlocution used in Old Norse and Icelandic poetry Paraprosdokian a sentence whose latter part is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the firstOthers Aleatory Bushism Constrained writing Rebus Interlanguages Mixed languages and Macaronic languages Sarcasm TmesisSee also EditFigure of speech Logology Word game Word play Wit Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of forms of word play amp oldid 1051422175, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
