| 单词 | pivot-pun |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspivot-pun pivot-pun n. see sense A. 3b. pivot-pun b. spec. A device in classical Japanese poetry, and subsequent literary forms such as linked verse, drama, and prose fiction, involving the use of a pun which implies one meaning with the words preceding it, and another with those following. More fully pivot-pun. Cf. pivot word n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > other aspects or elements > [noun] > pun in Japanese poetry pivot-pun1877 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > play on words, pun > in Japanese poetry pivot1877 1877 B. H. Chamberlain in Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan 5 86 A more complicated species of pun, occurring when a word with two meanings is used only once as a sort of pivot on which two wheels turn. In this case, the first part of the poetical phrase has no logical end, and the latter part no logical beginning.] 1877 B. H. Chamberlain in Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan 5 87 An example of what might be termed pivot-puns. 1880 B. H. Chamberlain Classical Poetry of Japanese Introd. 4 The ‘Pivot’ is a more complicated device, and one which, in any European language, would be not only insupportable, but impossible, resting, as it does, on a most peculiar kind of jeu de mots. 1967 R. A. Miller Japanese Lang. 1980 302 Chikamatsu has examples of phrases as long as 13 or 14 syllables which serve as pivots in their entirety, and some of these are even employed not only on two but on three different semantic levels simultaneously. 1998 Re: Beepers or Pagers? in alt.usage.english (Usenet newsgroup) 23 May A tanka usually breaks into two units, the first three lines forming one unit and the last two lines forming another... The middle line can be a ‘pivot’; that is, the middle line can be read with either the first two or last two lines. < as lemmas |
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