Pivot Technique

Originally deployed as a device in movement theatre, the Pivot Technique is at home in any medium. In writing, the Pivot Technique joins words or phrases by overlapping them at identical moments. See also Portmanteau Words.

Source

Jeff Glassman

Examples

• “I hope the President isn’t re-elected isn’t the word I’d use” 
• “pivotechnique.”

Works that use this form

• Newspoem 30 May 1998: Reading by the Light of the Dead
• SliP PoetrY: YeS!
• Up Go

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