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Paronomasia
For Paronomasia we have a term and definition in Poetry.
Paronomasia (Poetry) 
A play on words in which the same word is used in different senses or words with slight differences in sound are used in opposition to each other for a rhetorical contrast; a pun.
(Compare Antanaclasis, Syllepsis)
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