Pun

Paronomasia (also Paranomasie; παρά Greek para, " in addition to ", and ὄνομα onoma, " name", ie " Wortumbildung ", also Annominatio ( n ) ) is a rhetorical figure. As a variety of word game combines the paronomasia words together, which semantically or etymologically do not belong together, but are similar in sound. Often resembling words which have opposite - at least different - meaning.

Examples

• " Between embarrassment and hypocrisy " (Karl Kraus )
• " Favor more - than arty " (Karl Kraus )
• " From the land of poets and thinkers to which the judge and executioner " (Karl Kraus )
• " A boy runs in Kahne " ( Henry Sikora )
• " Haste makes waste "
• "Dear badly off as an arm off "
• " Quod licet Iovi non licet bovi " (Latin for " What Jupiter may, may not [ even ] the cattle " )
• " If you rest, you rust "

Figurative etymology

The figura etymologica is a special form of paronomasia in which both reference words have the same root word:

• " Full many a game I will play with you." (Goethe, Erlkönig )
• "Everything takes its course. "
• " Moderate moderator "
• " The creator of the creature "
• "Creating Creating Creating "
• " Spiders weave cobwebs "

Paronomastischer intensity genitive

The paronomastic intensity genitive ( genitive hebraicus ) is a paronomasia, consisting of a reference word to which the genitive is formed in the plural of the same word:

• The King of Kings
• The game of games
• The Book of Books
• The battle of battles