
13-Mar-2007, 16:31
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What is the term for this example? What do you call a word used in a poem or story that gets "manipulated" to create another word? For instance, in The Odyssey a soul in Hades is called a "shade." By taking the "s" in Hades and putting it in front of the word it makes a new word "shade." The original author didn't mean to do this since Homer did not write in English. I think it's cool how Hades and shade are interrelated and I think there is an English term that describes such. Am I right? If so, what's the term used to describe said example? |