Theo@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?message-squaremessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1149arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1140arrow-down1message-squareWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?Theo@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square87fedilinkfile-text
For me it is Mondegreen: which is a misheard lyric, word or phrase that becomes popular and gives it new meaning.
minus-squareSzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-212 days agoPart of what makes Klein’s Don’t Starve game so quirky and fun is the rampant use of creatures that are portmanteau’s of other creatures. Beefalo Deerclops Koalephant Catcoon
minus-squareMagosInformaticus@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·12 days agoBugsnax also does this a bit with creatures like the Fryder.
minus-squareSzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·12 days agoba-da-ba-ba-bug. I’m loving it.
Part of what makes Klein’s Don’t Starve game so quirky and fun is the rampant use of creatures that are portmanteau’s of other creatures.
Beefalo
Deerclops
Koalephant
Catcoon
Bugsnax also does this a bit with creatures like the Fryder.
ba-da-ba-ba-bug. I’m loving it.