List of forms of word play
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This is a list of techniques used in word play with Wikipedia articles.
Technique that involve the phonetic values of words
- Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) of a phrase 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
- 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 vowels
- Consonance: matching consonants
- Holorime: a rhyme that encompasses an entire line or phrase
- Spoonerism: a switch of two sounds in two different words (cf. sananmuunnos)
Techniques that involve the letters
- Acronym: abbreviations formed by combining the initial components in a phrase or name
- 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 could 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
- Apronym: a backronym in which the word itself is relevant to the associated phrase
- Anagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase
- Ambigram: a graphical figure that depicts a word in two or more directions
- 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
- 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
Techniques 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 describes itself
- Malapropism: incorrect usage of a word by substituting a similar-sounding word with different meaning
- Neologism: creating new words
- 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
- Pun: deliberately mixing two similar-sounding words
- Slang: the use of informal words or expressions
Techniques 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
Techniques 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 nickname
Techniques that involves figure of speech
- 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 first
- Verbification: a kind of derivation that turns words of other parts of speech into verbs
Others
- Aleatory
- Analytic philosophy
- Bushism
- Constrained writing
- Engrish
- 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
- Phonetic reversal
- Rebus
- Spanglish
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