Pun — Zeugma — Irony — Malapropism

Figure of speech

Pun

Zeugma

Irony

Malapropism

Definition

A play on words, either on different senses of the same word or on the similar sense or sound of different words. Also known as paronomasia.

The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or appropriate to only one.

Irony is a figure of speech in which an expression means something the opposite of or very contrary to its literal meaning.

Absurd or humorous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.

To which group it belongs:

- according to I. R. Galperin

- according to Kukharenko

- according to Screbnev

Lexical SDs and EMs

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Units of syntagmatic semasiology

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Units of syntagmatic semasiology

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Paradigmatic semasiology units

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Paradigmatic semasiology units

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