- medieval) Gr**** or
Latin rhetoric; it was
first attested in 1896. Some
paraprosdokians do not only
change the
meaning of an
early phrase, as in garden-path...
- comedian, writer, and producer. His stand-up
comedy persona makes use of
paraprosdokians spoken in a
wandering falsetto tone of voice. The confused, childlike...
-
delivery of ironic,
philosophical and
sometimes nonsensical jokes,
paraprosdokians, non sequiturs, anti-humor, and one-liners with
contrived situations...
- had
morning sickness after I was born" (Rodney Dangerfield) Greguería
Paraprosdokian Throwaway line Miller, K.E.L. (3
December 2009). "The
Unuttered Punch...
- idioms,
archetypes or wordplay.
Another po****r joke
structure is the
paraprosdokian, a
surprising punchline that
changes the
context or
meaning of the setup...
-
Coincidence Dirty Minds Doublespeak Dangling modifier Euphemism Iham
Paraprosdokian Spoonerism Ribaldry The word
double is
often pronounced as in English...
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Overseas National Airways Antanaclases are
prevalent in
humorous paraprosdokians emplo**** when
responding to a question. For example, in
response to...
- Parallelism: the use of
similar structures in two or more clauses.
Paraprosdokian: an
utterance that uses the same word with two
different meanings, creating...
- way. List of
linguistic example sentences Amphibology Antanaclasis Paraprosdokian Perverb Sentence processing Syntactic ambiguity Marc de Mey(1982), The...
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double entendres, and vice versa. Puns also bear
similarities with
paraprosdokian, syllepsis, and eggcorns. In addition,
homographic puns are sometimes...
