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Wordplay

Wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement. Examples of wordplay include puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, double…

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Wordplay

Nodes56
Edges55
Triples21
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.035714
Components1

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related to Examples · 12
Wordplay → An, Finnegans Wake Joyce's, For, Freud, James Joyce, Jung, Most, Shakespeare's, Similarly, The Times, Ulysses, Wodehouse
related to Related phenomena · 1
Wordplay → See
see also · 1
Wordplay → EtymologyFalse

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words also examples puns character example work names play like common found related see pun wit amusement spoonerisms rhetorical orthographic

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
spoonerismsinstance ofphonetic mix-ups0.80text
obscure wordsinstance ofphonetic mix-ups0.80text
meaningsinstance ofphonetic mix-ups0.80text
clever rhetorical excursionsinstance ofphonetic mix-ups0.80text
oddly formed sentencesinstance ofphonetic mix-ups0.80text
double entendresinstance ofphonetic mix-ups0.80text
and telling character namesinstance ofphonetic mix-ups0.80text
Wordplayrelated to ExamplesMost0.60section
Wordplayrelated to ExamplesShakespeare's0.60section
Wordplayrelated to ExamplesSimilarly0.60section
Wordplayrelated to ExamplesWodehouse0.60section
Wordplayrelated to ExamplesThe Times0.60section

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