Meaning of adnomination | Babel Free

Definitions

A form of wordplay in which phonetically similar words are juxtaposed.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

“The flurry of adnomination (varying a "root" term with prefixes and suffixes, as "luminous," by a kind of home etymology, is turned into "voluminous") — this flurry of punning settles into a joke out of a farce...”

“Characteristically, a rhetorical figure called “adnomination” is used, which repeats noun root in verb root or vice versa (for ex . “passing without passport” or “Slaves of the bourgeois class, daily and hourly enslaved”) .”

“In strophe D, the repetition of the stem אבל produces alliteration and can be described as adnomination (the repetition of words with the same root).”

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