Usage examples (30)

• Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties,433 not to speak of...
• I'm sitting here trying to decide whether a particular specimen of paronomasia is to be considered polyptoton or antanaclasis.
• More than most linguistic modes, such as paronomasia and malapropism, quasi malediction has diametric force.
• Warden, “grounded on a vain play upon words — a most idle paronomasia.”