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 other rhetorical flourishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

I'm sitting here trying to decide whether a particular specimen of paronomasia is to be considered polyptoton or antanaclasis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

More than most linguistic modes, such as paronomasia and malapropism, quasi malediction has diametric force.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1] Reference

Warden, “grounded on a vain play upon words — a most idle paronomasia.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

But then again, Tom Stoppard (who cowrote the film with Terry Gilliam) always seemed to prefer paronomasia to his fellow men anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joshua David Stein: WALL-E and The Fall of Man] Reference

Take an example from that master of paronomasia, Peter de Vries.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference

The Hebrew for "name" and for "ointment," have a happy paronomasia, Sheem and Shemen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

I hope this is not becoming another pun thread: I am doctrinally opposed to the Parousia of paronomasia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sadly, No!] Reference

It is unavoidable, one must assume, to prepare a collection of puns without explaining the nature of paronomasia.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4] Reference

Double-meanings, paronomasia, puns, and - in this case - a homonymous place names, are the source of endless fascination for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do Bianchi] Reference

Pun: •A pun (or paronomasia) is a phrase that deliberately exploits confusion between similar-sounding words for humorous or rhetorical effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

Euen the title -- which, as is customarie with great personages, is the best part of your Majesties book -- is marred by an unseemlie concession to paronomasia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

A strange but emphatic paronomasia is also involved in the second part of his bitter outbreak: first he took my bekhorah (birthright), now he takes my berakhah (blessing).    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Headline writers are often given to paronomasia (which they would probably call punning, as paronomasia, which would not fit into most headlines, is not in their vocabulary).    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1] Reference

These two anecdotes illustrate what might be called quasi malediction -- fancy but unfamiliar, sinister - or risque-sounding words somewhere between paronomasia and malapropism.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1] Reference

When words are used with full reliance on the audience's knowledge of denotations and awareness of, with no confusion over, the connotations, the result is a form of paronomasia.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1] Reference

Meek conveys the paronomasia involved very effectively by a rendering which we have followed above: "Called Babel because there Yahweh made a babble" Whatever other interpretation the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Similarly, Japheth is in the blessing by an equally apt paronomasia, associated with the analogous root pathah, "be open"; Hifil imperfect jussive yapht, "cause to be open" -- "grant ample territory.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

"grounded on a vain play upon words -- a most idle paronomasia.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

A peculiar reddish tinge in certain parts, as the paronomasia of Isa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Become a better paronomasia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not bloody likely.] Reference

9. believe, ... be established -- There is a paronomasia, or play on the words, in the Hebrew: "if ye will not confide, ye shall not abide.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

The little paronomasia is untranslatable.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

(You catch the paronomasia, play 'po' words?).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference

Still the paronomasia appears in the original.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

(1528) and thence by Wilson in The Arte of Rhetorique (1553), who cites an amusing instance of paronomasia by William Somer, Henry VIII's fool.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3] Reference

"paronomasia"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sadly, No!] Reference

Tags: meme me, paronomasia, web.    From Wordnik.com.  ["I'll be da."] Reference

4. paronomasia D. personification.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference

One is the spelling paronomasia (Sic!.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3] Reference