Paronomasia
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 .