Sunday, May 31, 2020

what is this kind of wordplay called?

Elli Esaw: The only words I know for them you have already used: pun and allusion.I would be interested to learn others.I do not think that "punchline to a Shaggy Dog Story" would count as name. :)

Solomon Belback: I would say its a pun. Wikipedia defines a pun as deliberately mixing two similarly sounding words.

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