Paronymy

The Paronymie is a lexical Relation which carries between two Mot S paronyms, i.e. from which the direction are different but to which the writing and/or the Prononciation are extremely close. All in all, it is about a approximate Homonymie.

Examples of couples of paronyms

“Pastry making”/“Tapestry” (idem)
“Anthropogogie”/“Anthropophagy”
“Champignelles”/“Champigneulles”
“Eschatologie”/“Scatological humor”
“Étrépilly”/“étrépigny”
“Ilion”/“Ilium”
“the family Duraton”/“the Family Little rat”
“Ransom”/“ransom”
“Tanit”/ “Taanit”
“Titoff”/“Titeuf”

Paronomasia

In Rhetoric, the Stylistic device which consists in bringing closer to the paronyms within the same statement is the paronomasia . From his capacity strongly “hooker”, it is amply used in all that has vocation to be short while being effective: the Publicity S, the Proverb S, the Title S, etc

It is also very current in the Calembour S, where one speaks about approximation .

Examples

“Birds of a feather flock together”
“Comparisons are misleading”
“Which steals a egg steals a Bœuf”
“Traduttore, traditore” (in Italian: translator, traitor)
“AD augusta per angusta” (in Latin: its majestic results by narrow gauge railways)
“And one can reduce to me to living without happiness,/But not solving me with living without honor.” (Crow, Cid )
“Of the steamed trollops teased a cocker spaniel rascal…” (Boby Lapointe, Your Katie left you , rather a Consonance in and)
Mighty Mouse / Mickey Mouse (English pronunciation only)
the Lord of the Rings / the Silence of the lambs
The rabbit says “If you have badly on the right”/appendicitis: you have badly on the right (Gerald Genty a specialist in its songs)
“the conflicts proliferate in the oil-bearing zones” (Psy 4 of the rhyme, the world is Stone )

Implicit paronomasia

There exists a particular type of paronomasia, in which the bringing together is only implicit, because only one of the two paronyms is quoted. In fact, that which is quoted takes the place of the other, in a sentence where it is the other one than one awaits.

For example in to breathe a little true air , it is not truth that one waits, but expenses , although it is not quoted.

" God makes that my lament goes beating drum, speak to him about the rain, to speak to him about the large temps" (and not of the good weather ) in the song of Georges Brassens the storm .

See too

External bonds

Paronomasia, on the site of the Québécois Office of the French language
Paronomasia on the linguistic Bank of breakdown service
Lexicon of the literary terms.

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