agnomination

  1. Noun.  (rhetoric) A paronomasia, or allusion of one word to another.
  2. Noun.  (rhetoric) An alliteration.
  3. Noun.  (rhetoric) polyptoton.
  4. Noun.  (rhetoric) Assigning to a proper name its literal or homophonic meaning.

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