TheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?message-squaremessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up192arrow-down1message-squareWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?TheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square49fedilinkfile-text
For me it is Mondegreen: which is a misheard lyric, word or phrase that becomes popular and gives it new meaning.
minus-squareotacon239@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-27 months agoSpoonerisms Malaprops are when a character chooses a similar sounding but wrong word for comedic effect.
minus-squareNOT_RICK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months ago“She wrote me one of those John Deere letters…”
minus-squareTheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoI always knew it as transposing the beginning sounds of two words like: fons of tun instead of tons of fun.
minus-squareotacon239@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months agoYou’re right. I’m thinking of malaprop.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-27 months agoNot necessarily for comedic effect, and it’s for swapping consonants.
minus-squareparaphrand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoSo like, when you fly over the ocean?
SpoonerismsMalaprops are when a character chooses a similar sounding but wrong word for comedic effect.“She wrote me one of those John Deere letters…”
I always knew it as transposing the beginning sounds of two words like: fons of tun instead of tons of fun.
You’re right. I’m thinking of malaprop.
Not necessarily for comedic effect, and it’s for swapping consonants.
So like, when you fly over the ocean?