Paronomasia

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Paronomasia (also paranomasia ; Greek  παρά para , "with, beside", and ὄνομα onoma , "name"; thus "word reshuffle"; also Annominatio (n) ) is a rhetorical figure . As a form of play on words , Paronomasia combines words that do not belong together semantically or etymologically , but which sound similar. Often the similar words have opposite - at least different - meanings.

Examples

  • "Between embarrassment and mendacity " ( Karl Kraus )
  • "More favor - than assiduous art " (Karl Kraus)
  • "From the people of poets and thinkers to that of judges and executioners " (Karl Kraus)
  • "A boy rides in the boat " ( Heinrich Heine )
  • " Hurry with a while "
  • "Better arm on than arm off"
  • "Quod licet Iovi , non licet bovi " ( Latin for "What Jupiter is allowed to do, the cattle may not [also]")
  • " Urbi et orbi " ("The city and the world"; Pope's blessing)
  • "If you rest , you rust "

Figura etymologica

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

  • " I play really nice games with you." ( Goethe , Erlkönig )
  • "Everything goes its way ."
  • "Moderate moderator"
  • "The creator of the creature "
  • "Design design design"
  • "Spiders weave cobwebs"
  • "You need sharp scissors to shear sheep"

Paronomastic intensity genitive

The paronomastic intensity genitive (Genitivus 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
  • Vanity of vanities

See also

swell

  • Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language . 4th edition; Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar, 2010, ISBN 3-476-02335-4 .
  • Gerd Schäfer : King of Kings, Song of Songs. Studies on the paronomastic intensity genitive . Dep. D. Heidelb. Ak. d. Knowledge 1973.2; Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1974, ISBN 3-533-02282-X .