* Figurative Derivatives (related concepts): These are related literary and rhetorical devices:
* Puns: The most direct and common derivative. A pun is a specific type of wordplay using words with multiple meanings.
* Double entendre: Similar to a pun, but often with a suggestive or risqué secondary meaning.
* Paronomasia: A more formal term for punning, emphasizing the similarity in sound between words.
* Malapropism: The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often humorous. While an error, it's a *result* of the potential for wordplay.
* Spoonerism: The accidental transposition of sounds in two words, often creating a humorous effect (e.g., "You have hissed all my mystery lectures" instead of "You have missed all my history lectures"). Again, an error that plays on sounds.
* Anthropomorphism: Giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals. This can sometimes be used playfully to create a wordplay effect.
* Linguistic Derivatives (words related to the process): These are words describing the aspects of wordplay:
* Ambiguity: The existence of multiple possible meanings, which is essential to much wordplay.
* Homonymy: The existence of words with the same spelling but different meanings.
* Polysemy: The existence of words with multiple related meanings.
* Homophony: The existence of words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
Essentially, "derivatives" of wordplay encompass both the specific types of wordplay itself and the linguistic phenomena that make wordplay possible. The interpretation depends on the context of the question.