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Revision as of 21:50, 24 December 2013
Asteismus is a rhetorical term for a mocking or humorous reply that employs word play.[1]
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)
References
- ^ Brett Zimmerman (1 September 2005). Edgar Allan Poe: Rhetoric and Style. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-7735-2899-4. Retrieved 15 July 2013.