What's the difference between "synaesthesia", "onomatopoeia" and etymological word-play?
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Synesthesia is the confusion/blending of senses - "This curve tastes like yellow" is a good example. It's a rare condition experienced by some people who do not process brain signals in the same manner as most of society. Onomatopoeia is the use of descriptive sounds - words such as "pop", "boom", "buzz", "coo", "whoosh", and "hee-ya" all are examples of onomatopoeia. Etymological word play is taking words that sounds similar and from that infering a relationship or making a pun. For instance, "reed" and "read" are identical sounding words, as well as "read" and "red". One form of EWP could be "the scarlet reeds are literate". Another example could be "Reading the reeds to be read makes me red". The relationship could be such as I have displayed in the previous example, or it could be more subtle. Micah 1:8-15 in the Bible provides a good example of this. All the punishments correspond to the names (check the footnotes).
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