Encyclopedia > Wordplay

Article Content

Wordplay

Wordplay is the term for using words in an unusual way that is considered amusing or otherwise interesting.

See also

anagram
crab canon
figure of speech
holorime[?]
kenning
lipogram
mondegreen
pangram
palindrome
pun
rebus[?]
transcription (linguistics)
verbing
word games

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Monty Woolley

... Woolley was a professor and lecturer at Yale University (one of his students was Thornton Wilder) who began acting on Broadway in 1936. He was typecast as th ...