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This is a list of techniques used in word play. Techniques that involve the phonetic values of words * Engrish * Chinglish * Homonym: words with same sounds and same spellings but with different meanings * Homograph: words with same spellings but with different meanings * Homophone: words with same sounds but with different meanings * Homophonic translation * Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a new meaning. The term is often used to refer specifically to mishearings of song lyrics (cf. soramimi). * Onomatopoeia: a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing * Phonetic reversal * Rhyme: a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words * Alliteration: ma

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rdfs:comment	This is a list of techniques used in word play. Techniques that involve the phonetic values of words * Engrish * Chinglish * Homonym: words with same sounds and same spellings but with different meanings * Homograph: words with same spellings but with different meanings * Homophone: words with same sounds but with different meanings * Homophonic translation * Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a new meaning. The term is often used to refer specifically to mishearings of song lyrics (cf. soramimi). * Onomatopoeia: a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing * Phonetic reversal * Rhyme: a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words * Alliteration: ma (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Pseudonym Engrish Eponym Mesostic Retronym Aptronym Holorime Homophone Rhyme Dysphemism Letter (alphabet) Letter bank Sananmuunnos Anagram Non sequitur (literary device) Word square Mondegreen Constrained writing Conversion (word formation) Anglish Oxymoron Pig Latin Portmanteau Word play Malapropism Auto-antonym Dog Latin Irony Jumble Language game Lipogram Logology (linguistics) Spoonerism Acronym Alliteration Ambigram Ananym Word play Pangram Chronogram Folk etymology Gramogram Kenning Pun RAS syndrome Rebus Backronym Tautogram Assonance Acrostic Charactonym Chinglish Blanagram Homograph Homonym Homophonic translation Zeugma and syllepsis Recursive acronym Autogram Bushism Phono-semantic matching Circumlocution Figure of speech Icelandic language Interlanguage Old Norse Onomatopoeia Semantics Slang Wit Neologism Sarcasm Euphemism Literary consonance Sobriquet Word game Paraprosdokian Univocalic Phonetic reversal Palindrome Ubbi dubbi Tmesis Soramimi Same-sounding words Aleatory Mixed languages Caesar shift Macaronic languages dbr:Apronym
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has abstract	This is a list of techniques used in word play. Techniques that involve the phonetic values of words * Engrish * Chinglish * Homonym: words with same sounds and same spellings but with different meanings * Homograph: words with same spellings but with different meanings * Homophone: words with same sounds but with different meanings * Homophonic translation * Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a new meaning. The term is often used to refer specifically to mishearings of song lyrics (cf. soramimi). * Onomatopoeia: a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing * Phonetic reversal * Rhyme: a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words * Alliteration: matching consonants sounds at the beginning of words * Assonance: matching vowel sounds * Consonance: matching consonant sounds * Holorime: a rhyme that encompasses an entire line or phrase * Spoonerism: a switch of two sounds in two different words (cf. sananmuunnos) * Same-sounding words or phrases, fully or approximately homophonous (sometimes also referred to as "oronyms") Techniques that involve the letters * Acronym: abbreviations formed by combining the initial components in a phrase or names * : an acronym that is also a phrase pertaining to the original meaning * RAS syndrome: repetition of a word by using it both as a word alone and as a part of the acronym * Recursive acronym: an acronym that has the acronym itself as one of its components * Acrostic: a writing in which the first letter, syllable, or word of each line can be put together to spell out another message * Mesostic: a writing in which a vertical phrase intersects lines of horizontal text * Word square: a series of letters arranged in the form of a square that can be read both vertically and horizontally * Backronym: a phrase back-formed by treating a word that is originally not an initialism or acronym as one * Replacement Backronym: a phrase back-formed from an existing initialism or acronym that is originally an abbreviation with another meaning * Anagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase * Ambigram: a word which can be read just as well mirrored or upside down * Blanagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase and substituting one single letter to produce a new word or phrase * Letter bank: using the letters from a certain word or phrase as many times as wanted to produce a new word or phrase * Jumble: a kind of word game in which the solution of a puzzle is its anagram * Chronogram: a phrase or sentence in which some letters can be interpreted as numerals and rearranged to stand for a particular date * Gramogram: a word or sentence in which the names of the letters or numerals are used to represent the word * Lipogram: a writing in which certain letter is missing * Univocalic: a type of poetry that uses only one vowel * Palindrome: a word or phrase that reads the same in either direction * Pangram: a sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet at least once * Tautogram: a phrase or sentence in which every word starts with the same letter * Caesar shift: moving all the letters in a word or sentence some fixed number of positions down the alphabet Techniques that involve semantics and the choosing of words * Anglish: a writing using exclusively words of Germanic origin * Auto-antonym: a word that contains opposite meanings * Autogram: a sentence that provide an inventory of its own characters * Irony * Malapropism: incorrect usage of a word by substituting a similar-sounding word with different meaning * Neologism: creating new words * Phono-semantic matching: camouflaged/pun borrowing in which a foreign word is matched with a phonetically and semantically similar pre-existent native word (related to folk etymology) * Portmanteau: a new word that fuses two words or morphemes * Retronym: creating a new word to denote an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else * Oxymoron: a combination of two contradictory terms * Zeugma and Syllepsis: the use of a single phrase in two ways simultaneously * Pun: deliberately mixing two similar-sounding words * Slang: the use of informal words or expressions Techniques that involve the manipulation of the entire sentence or passage * Dog Latin * Language game: a system of manipulating spoken words to render them incomprehensible to the untrained ear * Pig Latin * Ubbi dubbi * Non sequiturs: a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement Techniques that involve the formation of a name * Ananym: a name with reversed letters of an existing name * Aptronym: a name that aptly represents a person or character * Charactonym: a name which suggests the personality traits of a fictional character * Eponym: applying a person's name to a place * Pseudonym: an artificial fictitious name, used as an alternative to one's legal name * Sobriquet: a popularized nickname Techniques that involves figure of speech * Conversion (word formation): a transformation of a word of one word class into another word class * Dysphemism: intentionally using a word or phrase with a harsher tone over one with a more polite tone * Euphemism: intentionally using a word or phrase with a more polite tone over one with a harsher tone * Kenning: circumlocution used in Old Norse and Icelandic poetry * Paraprosdokian: a sentence whose latter part is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first Others * Aleatory * Bushism * Constrained writing * Rebus * Interlanguages, Mixed languages and Macaronic languages * Sarcasm * Tmesis (en)
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