(1) The last example also contains paronomasia ; here, the pun is on possessed meaning both having come into possession and unreasonably determined.(2) Here, as throughout the poem, her paronomasia acts as a device for eliciting the sensitive connections between words and our physical response to them.(3) That humorous lyric mentioned earlier, u2018You can't have your Kate and Edith, toou2019 and the song u2018Overnight Maleu2019 demonstrate paronomasia , use of words alike in sound but different in meaning.(4) Michael Wood's essay, clearly a labor of love, discusses Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres, as well as its ambitious translation, concentrating on the author's Joycean u2018besetting virtue,u2019 paronomasia .(5) This run of pointed paronomasia comes to a head in u2018fetters,u2019 which gathers to itself the accumulated sense, minted in the interests of others, of discursive abstractions that bind.
