paronomasia

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wordplay involving the juxtaposition of similar sounding words; also, punning See also: adnominatio, paragram, polyptoton
/ use of similar sounding words; often etymological word-play * culled cash, or cold cash, and then it turned into a gold cache E L Doctorow, Billy Bathgate *Thou art Peter (Greek petros), and upon this rock (Greek petra) I shall build my church Matthew 16 *The dying Mercutio: Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples, Ross Scaife)
{i} word game, pun, use of a word to create a humorous effect
a pun or play on words
A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning
a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
punning, a play of meaning by yoking similar-sounding words See Pun
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