adnominatio

1. Assigning to a proper name its literal or homophonic meaning. (Silva Rhetoricae)

2. Play on the sound or meaning of words by a slight change or transposition of letters, by a change in word-form or case, or by the addition of a prefix. (Garrett Epp)

3. If a mode of expression both easy and adorned is desired, set aside all the techniques of the dignified style and have recourse to means that are simple, but of a simplicity that does not shock the ear by its rudeness. Here are the rhetorical colours with which to adorn your style: (Vinsauf)

4. Nomination is the title we presume to give
to that figure which consists in the enumeration of the names of specific places - Proper Names, in which is often a strange charm; a witching, noble music and suggestive
power. (Macbeth)

1. Mr. Oake, with his 5' 3" stature, really seemed more of an acorn. (Silva Rhetoricae)

2. SAMPSON: Gregory, on my word, we'll not carry coals.

GREGORY: No, for then we should be colliers.

SAMPSON: I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.

GREGORY: Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar. (R&J 1.1 qtd. in Garrett Epp)

2. ... Then crushing penury

Persuades me I was better when a king;

Then am I kinged again; and by and by

Think that I am unkinged by Bolingbroke .... (R2 5.5 qtd. in Garrett Epp)

3. Here in flesh (carne) without flaw (carie), not caught in fault's (criminis) net (hamo), a man (homo) simple and suppliant (simplex, supplex), he set at naught (lusit), the insidious serpent who deceived us (elusit), and, made a hostage (hostia), he destroyed the hostile one (hostem) and by his dying dismayed him (moriendo, remordit). (Vinsauf)

4. We feel this charm in good Bishop Heber's
lines to his wife:
" If thou wert by my side, my love,
How fast would evening fall,
In green Bengala's palmy grove,
Listening the nightingale.
Then on ! then on! Where duty leads
My course be onward still;
On broad Hindostan's sultry meads,
Or bleak Almorah's hill." (Macbeth)