Wordplay

[Penitence]

How would you define wordplay?
What is it?
Examples?
How to improve?

I see no threads on this.. And i can't think of any way's to help the kid's out on this one.

[krysto]

Wordplay

Wordplay is a concept that a lot of people stretch and misuse. Hopefully by tha time you finish readin' this the uses as well as misuses will be distinctly more apparent. It's hard to tell someone how to wordplay, as this has to be done on your own, but what I can tell you is how ta properly use wordplay an' how ta keep from forcin' it.

DOUBLE MEANING

Example: make ya O², like tha oxygen ya wasted/ (0-2)
Example: Titanic's the sixth sense, icy dead people/ (I see)
Example: like robin hood, ya just found out ya marry men/ (merry)

This is my most effective punchplay method. By use of double meanings you are connecting two homophones(your wordplay)into a punch. Notice that I said homophones. This does not in words that pretty much sound like another. To find out if ya own creations are forced, go through syllable by syllable and if any one syllable doesn't match it's counterpart, it is indeed forced.

WORD FISSION

Example: What took you twenty, I in-ten-did/ (intended)
Example: All new? All blue? This kid's walkin' crip-tonight/ (kryptonite)
Example: Wearin ya out, just another casual-tee/ (casualty)

When splicing a word into two separates you must use a hyphen ta show connection. These are the easiest wordplays to start with considering all you are essentially doin' is dividin' a word into syllables an' connectin' tha different syllables in altered ways. Again, go syllable by syllable ta find any forces. It isn't required that any homophones be found in these wordplays ta justify it as wordplay, but they do make it that much more inventive.

WORD FUSION

Example: Like pregnant christians, ya never de-fetus kids/ (defeat us)
Example: Must be on tha budget phone service cause ya clique inactive/ (click in active)

When combinin' words you may or may not find it necessary to use hyphens, strictly up ta tha emcee. These can pack a powerful punch just as all wordplay can, but once again, be careful not ta force. All that is required from this type of wordplay is that words be adjoined, though homophones within help periodically.

WHAT WORDPLAY ISN'T

Example: Like night of the livin' dead, I'm layin' off this coroner/
Example: I got more deaf lines than Beethoven/
Example: Hump hoes like egore's daughters/

These are punches, clever ones at that, but they aren't wordplay. A punch is generally a comparison of some sort poking fun at someone or something, or making a clever statement of some sort.

[CmartOne]

thas right there was an exceptional break down..nice.....2

[JimmyRanders]

Good shit