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Adnominatio

ad-no-mi-na'-ti-o
Also spelt: agnominatio, agnomination

A synonym for paronomasia.
A synonym for polyptoton.
Assigning to a proper name its literal or homophonic meaning.

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Acknowledgement

The above information on individual rhetorical techniques is reproduced from the website “Silva Rhetoricae” (www.rhetoric.byu.edu ) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Credit for this content lies with Professor Gideon O Burton of Brigham Young University.