Theo@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agoWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?message-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up134arrow-down1message-squareWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?Theo@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square16fedilinkfile-text
For me it is Mondegreen: which is a misheard lyric, word or phrase that becomes popular and gives it new meaning.
minus-squareClassy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-218 days agoI enjoy “portmanteau”: the combination of two words to get a new meaning.“Brunch” Malapropisms are great, too. “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious”
minus-squareTheo@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·18 days agoThat’s a new one. I didn’t know about malapropisms. There is a daily wordle style game I cannot think of what it is called for portmanteaus.
minus-squareSzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-218 days agoPart of what makes Klein’s Don’t Starve game so quirky and fun is the rampant use of creatures that are portmanteau’s of other creatures. Beefalo Deerclops Koalephant Catcoon
I enjoy “portmanteau”: the combination of two words to get a new meaning.“Brunch”
Malapropisms are great, too. “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious”
That’s a new one. I didn’t know about malapropisms. There is a daily wordle style game I cannot think of what it is called for portmanteaus.
Part of what makes Klein’s Don’t Starve game so quirky and fun is the rampant use of creatures that are portmanteau’s of other creatures.
Beefalo
Deerclops
Koalephant
Catcoon