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WORD PLAY - A few definitions


 
some short notes to generate ideas


pun a play on words.

 

riddle a statement or proposition couched in mysterious way to create an enigma, but to which there is an answer.

 

 

palindrome a word or sentence or extended piece of writing that reads the same way forward as backwards.

 

 

acrostic a sequence of lines, the first letters of which when taken separately constitutes a separate word.

 

 

oxymoron a rhetorical figure by which contradictory terms are joined together to give point to the statement.

 

 

 

tongue twister words of a similar sound that induce difficulty in articulating the sentence. rebus a represent-ation of objects by pictures within a written sentence.

Frotz Eichenberg from Peter Piper's Practical Principles, click for more

 

 

 

 

spoonerism the transpositions of sounds, usually in a sentence, as in A well-boiled icicle, A blushing crow, The Lord is a shoving leopard, Is the bean dizzy ? Associated primarily with the Rev. William Archibald Spooner, Warden of New College Oxford from 1903 to 1924. Spooner was seemingly capable of the `acted' Spoonerism, pouring claret onto salt he had spilt at dinner.

 

 

 

 

See Augarde, The Oxford Guide to Word Games .
 

 

 

 

 

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