You're a Word Player

 

This used to be the kind of raconteur most highly prized at dinner tables and salons. People would call you a "wit."  Today, only the elite can really appreciate you. Your love of puns can be off-putting, but if you put your impressive mind to it, you can tailor your love of words to suit any kind of audience. Work to expand your toolkit beyond homonyms and clever figures. Go for the more interesting tropes like the belonging trope. And feel free to indulge in figures. The right audiences will love you for it.

Famous Wits: Oscar Wilde, Calvin Trillin, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, William Shakespeare, P.G. Wodehouse, James Joyce, Beck, George Carlin, Elvis Costello, Jay-Z, Groucho Marx, Vladimir Nabokov, Lewis Carroll 

Your Best Tools:

Belonging trope

Definition

Descriptive label

Euphemism

Feigned precision

Irony

Litotes

Mirror image

Mr. Potatohead

Multiple synonyms

Neologism

Portmanteau

Pun

Russian Doll figure

Venereal Language

Verbing

 

 

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