Metonymy and Pun

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Difference between Metonymy and Pun

Metonymy vs. Pun

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept. The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

Similarities between Metonymy and Pun

Metonymy and Pun have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Eggcorn, Japan, Polysemy, Rhetoric.

Eggcorn

In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect (sometimes called oronyms).

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Polysemy

Polysemy (or; from πολυ-, poly-, "many" and σῆμα, sêma, "sign") is the capacity for a sign (such as a word, phrase, or symbol) to have multiple meanings (that is, multiple semes or sememes and thus multiple senses), usually related by contiguity of meaning within a semantic field.

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, wherein a writer or speaker strives to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.

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Metonymy and Pun Comparison

Metonymy has 110 relations, while Pun has 157. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 1.50% = 4 / (110 + 157).

References

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