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Encyclopedia: Word play

Word play is a literary technique in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work. Puns, phonetic mixups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names are common examples of word play.

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How to say "Word play" in other languages:

	(German)	Wortspiel
	(French)	Jeu de mots

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Beats, Rhymes and Life

"Word Play" - 2:59 "Stressed Out" - 4:57...

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Bibidi

fairly obvious word play with these character's names: "Bibidi Babidi Buu...

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Count Zero

. The name of the book is a word-play of the programming term Count Zero, when in a loop a counter...

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Firesign Theater

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Daniel Dumile

just a few. His incredible rythmic rhyming, word play and lyrical flows make him a favourite of...

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George Gobel

often involved word play, such as spoonerisms ("in one swell foop"). He also played harmonica. George...

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Grape joke

. This is a word play on a mathematical term, an abelian group. One of the mathematical properties of...

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Solovki

camp name is a sullen word play for those who speak Russian: slon means "elephant". It was one of...

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Stan Kelly-Bootle

stunning examples of word-play, criticism of silly marketing and usage (he refers often to the...

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Saigyo

the Kokinshu. Where the Kokinshû was concerned with subjective experience, word play, flow, and..., was not as interested in word play, allowed for repetition, had breaks in the flow, is slightly more...

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