Speech Play and Verbal Art: 

Genres:

• Iconicity 
• Sound Symbolism/ Onomatopoeia 
  
• Reduplication
  
• Disguised Speech, secret codes/languages (ie pig Latin, Klingon?), speech disguise
• Puns 
• Bilingual puns
  
• Pragmatics
  
• Syntax and Semantics
  
• Jokes
• Riddle jokes
  
• Narrative jokes
  
• Interethnic jokes and jokes across social boundaries 
  
• Dirty jokes 
  
• Ethnic jokes 
  
• Metajokes
  
• Put-ons, trickster behavior, trickster tales 
• Proverbs 
• Riddles 
• Verbal Dueling 
• Word games and puzzles 
• Figures of speech
• Antithesis
  
• Anastrophe
  
• Parenthesis
  
• Apposition
  
• Ellipsis
  
• Asyndeton
  
• Polysyndeton
  
• Anaphora
  
• Anadiplosis
  
• Climax
  
• Antimetabole 
  
• Polypopton
  
• Chiasmus