14 VALÉRIE KABERGS – HANS AUSLOOS In a similar way, the similarity of sound patterns that is so character- istic of paronomasia (in our definition), would also not manifest it- self as a play if there were no differences in meaning between the combined words. Thus, we hope it is clear that without the interaction between sound and meaning, there would not be any ambiguity and the wordplay would be absent. III. Implications of the Proposed Definition The definition of Hebrew wordplay as an ambiguous interaction between both sound and meaning in a specific literary context, as proposed above, has some implications. Since it is necessary to have a play on meaning as well as on sound patterns for a certain word combination to be called a “wordplay” according to our def- inition, figures of word that do not show enough interaction be- tween sound and meaning will be ruled out in this contribution (1). Moreover, this encompassing definition of wordplay enables us to include not only wordplay on common nouns and verbs, but also the ambiguous play on proper nouns (2). 1. Linguistic Figures that do not Play on both Sound and Meaning Studies on wordplay exhibit a great variety when discussing what kind of linguistic figures could be categorized under the general de- nomination of wordplay. According to our own definition of Hebrew wordplay, linguistic figures that lack sufficient interaction between both aspects of sound and meaning in the combined words cannot be called “wordplay”. In scholarly literature one can recognize at least two cate- gories that cannot, in our opinion, be considered types of wordplay. The first category consists of those combined words that play on identical or similar sound patterns without incorporating any differ- ence in meaning. (1) Geminatio, epizeuxis and epanalepsis, terms that are used to refer to the literal repetition of a word or combined words, can be situated in this context 37. As an example of the repetition of a 37 Cf. VAN GORP – DELABASTITA – GHESQUIÈRE, Lexicon van literaire ter- men, 145. Theoretically speaking, one uses the terms iteratio or palillogia to refer to the repetition of an independent word, whereas the concepts repeti- tio, epanalepsis or epizeuxis are used for the repetition of a word group. The