Theo to Ask [email protected]English • 1 month agoWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?message-square85fedilinkarrow-up1149file-text
arrow-up1149message-squareWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?Theo to Ask [email protected]English • 1 month agomessage-square85fedilinkfile-text
For me it is Mondegreen: which is a misheard lyric, word or phrase that becomes popular and gives it new meaning.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink15•edit-21 month agoSpoonerisms Malaprops are when a character chooses a similar sounding but wrong word for comedic effect.
minus-squareTheoOPlinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month agoI always knew it as transposing the beginning sounds of two words like: fons of tun instead of tons of fun.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month ago“She wrote me one of those John Deere letters…”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-21 month agoNot necessarily for comedic effect, and it’s for swapping consonants.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 month agoMy favorite spoonerism growing up was when someone in church would say “Bow your eyes and close your heads”. I haven’t been to church in 15 years but it still makes me chuckle thinking about it.
SpoonerismsMalaprops are when a character chooses a similar sounding but wrong word for comedic effect.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.
“She wrote me one of those John Deere letters…”
Not necessarily for comedic effect, and it’s for swapping consonants.
So like, when you fly over the ocean?
My favorite spoonerism growing up was when someone in church would say “Bow your eyes and close your heads”. I haven’t been to church in 15 years but it still makes me chuckle thinking about it.
Shame it’s not a Spoonerism.