When done well, it's verbal play.

"House" is the more verbal and socially barbed play, as befits its interior setting, promisingly accented with French windows.

Poetry was for him verbal play, a "play-form," that enabled him to express the inexpressible and bring forth what would otherwise be repressed.

But he remains too much the prophet-poet for the conceits, puns, and verbal play of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century.

Joycean fiction exhibits a high degree of verbal play, usually within the framework of stream of consciousness.

A thoroughgoing deconstructive analysis would show culture being absorbed into literature, or at least into textuality and verbal play.

Mr. de la Fuente, an overly desperate swain, has far too heavy a touch for the play's verbal fancies.

The verbal play and inventiveness of spoken conversation was able to jump the barrier into the new medium and get combined with visual things.

But as a reader, I don't want to be without the verbal play and inventiveness of the generation that came before Mitchell's.

Their conversation breaks down into Bugs leading Daffy to admit it is duck season by a number of verbal plays.