What is an example of a malapropism?

Answer 1

A malapropism is when an individual confuses two words and substitutes the word they mean for a similar sounding or spelt word. An example being, were my wife having a mammogram at the hospital, to say "My wife is up at the hospital having her anagram" the confusion of mammogram and anagram is a malapropsim

Answer 2

A malapropism is when an individual confuses two words and substitutes the word they mean for a similar sounding or spelt word. An example being, were my wife having a mammogram at the hospital, to say "My wife is up at the hospital having her anagram" the confusion of mammogram and anagram is a malapropsim

Answer 3

Viola: Dost thou live by thy music? Feste: No, sir, I live by the church. Viola: Art thou a churchman? Feste: No such matter, sir: I do live by the church; for I do live at my house and my house doth stand by the church.

Answer 4

The word 'subtractors' in Twelfth Night is an example of an malapropism in the play, as the word should be detractors. It is spoken by the character, Sir Toby Belch, and can be found in Act I, Scene 3.

Answer 5

A malapropism is when you substitute a similar sounding word for the word you mean. In "Twelfth Night" there is a malapropism in the third scene of the first act, when Sir Toby Belch says subtractors instead of detractors.

Answer 6

"Olivia: Cousin, how have you come to early by this lethargy? Toby: Lechery! I defy lechery!" This is malapropism because Sir Toby mishears Olivia's words in a way that is comical.

Answer 7

The whole character of Malvolio is a satire on Puritans.

Answer 8

When Tybalt kills mercuitio, also when lord Capulet tell Tybalt off