| 释义 |
paronomasia /ˌparənəˈmeɪzɪə /nounA play on words; a pun.That humorous lyric mentioned earlier, ‘You can't have your Kate and Edith, too’ and the song ‘Overnight Male’ demonstrate paronomasia, use of words alike in sound but different in meaning....- Here, as throughout the poem, her paronomasia acts as a device for eliciting the sensitive connections between words and our physical response to them.
- The last example also contains paronomasia; here, the pun is on possessed meaning both having come into possession and unreasonably determined.
Origin Late 16th century: via Latin from Greek paronomasia, from para- 'beside' (expressing alteration) + onomasia 'naming' (from onomazein 'to name', from onoma 'a name'). |