What literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?
What literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?
For me it is Mondegreen: which is a misheard lyric, word or phrase that becomes popular and gives it new meaning.
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“Aptronym”
When someone’s name is fitting for their occupation.
Tiger Woods (like the gold club)
Usain Bolt (who bolts quickly)
Etc.
Also whatever this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
My favorites are Dr. Richard Chopp (a urologist) and Les McBurney (a fire chief).
I am going to pretend that he has a cousin named Moore McBurney, the notorious arsonist.
Years ago my mother had a pain doc named Dr. Miracle
Armand Hammer's fortune came from petroleum, not baking soda, but he supposedly bought a stake in Church & Dwight just for the pun of it.
Is this the same or different to nominative determinism?
