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-'''Asteismus''' is a rhetorical term for a mocking or humorous reply that employs word play.<ref>http://books.google.se/books?id=OKxwOqUgNvkC&pg=PA149&dq=asteismus&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XV1lUbaBHMTi4QTbwIGoBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=asteismus&f=false</ref>
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-== Examples ==
-:'''Professor Wagstaff''': Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.
-:'''Professors''': But professor, where will the students sleep?
-:'''Professor Wagstaff''': Where they always sleep: in the classroom.
-: (Groucho Marx in ''Horse Feathers'', 1932)
-:'''Captain Spaulding''': [to Mrs. Rittenhouse and Mrs. Whitehead] Let's get married.
-:'''Mrs. Whitehead''': All of us?
-:'''Captain Spaulding''': All of us.
-:'''Mrs. Whitehead''': Why, that's bigamy.
-:'''Captain Spaulding''': Yes, and it's big of me too.
-: (Groucho Marx and Margaret Irving in ''Animal Crackers'', 1930)
-== Reference ==
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-[[Category:Poetic devices]]