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word play

A technique in which the nature of the words used become part of the subject of the work, such as puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names.
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Submitted on July 07, 2010

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word playUsed other than as an idiom: see word, play.
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