Diaphora
The diaphora ( Greek διαφορά , 'diversity'), also diaphora , is a rhetorical figure. It denotes the repetition of the same word in different meanings.
In oral use, homophones are also suitable for this play on words .
Examples
- Take care of eight people.
- When liars call liars liars, lies lies lies.
- Getting lighter lighter (advertising a diet)
- When flies fly behind, flies fly after.
- Nestroy, Liebesgeschichten und Heurathssachen 2, 7: “Buchner: Tell me, Nebel, you are a crazy guy, what do you think of the female sex? - Nebel: Yes, of one gender, what cannot be held is difficult to hold “.
Examples with homophones
- Despite the abandonment of his studies he was allowed to become a teacher. Mailbox emptier.
- The forest was full of bears: blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, grizzly bears ...
- Theodore, the hero who lasts! ( Schlager by Theo Lingen about a football goalkeeper )
- Who does nothing becomes a host.
- When I see a lake, I don't need the sea anymore.