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'''Asteismus''' is a rhetorical term for a mocking or humorous reply that employs [[word play]].<ref name="Zimmerman2005">{{cite book|author=Brett Zimmerman|title=Edgar Allan Poe: Rhetoric and Style|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OKxwOqUgNvkC&pg=PA149|accessdate=15 July 2013|date=1 September 2005|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-2899-4|page=149}}</ref> |
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== Examples == |
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:'''Professor Wagstaff''': Tomorrow we start tearing down the college. |
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:'''Professors''': But professor, where will the students sleep? |
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:'''Professor Wagstaff''': '''Where they always sleep: in the classroom.''' |
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: (Groucho Marx in ''Horse Feathers'', 1932) |
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:'''Captain Spaulding''': [to Mrs. Rittenhouse and Mrs. Whitehead] Let's get married. |
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:'''Mrs. Whitehead''': All of us? |
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:'''Captain Spaulding''': All of us. |
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:'''Mrs. Whitehead''': Why, that's bigamy. |
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:'''Captain Spaulding''': Yes, '''and it's big of me too.''' |
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: (Groucho Marx and Margaret Irving in ''Animal Crackers'', 1930) |
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== References == |
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[[Category:Poetic devices]] |
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