Text rebuses which use text visually to create a new text solution as in.synthetic rebus: where the solver interprets an association from the image and ascribes a phoneme or complete word to that image, as with 🐝 🐝 and “Beyoncé hive (fans).”įor text-based rebuses a similar bit of logic is useful, but we would add two distinctions:.analytical rebus: an image corresponds in a 1:1 relationship to a phoneme, syllable, or complete word, as with 🐝 and “bee.”.
In his review of Rébus de la Renaissance, Henri Weber breaks down the symbolic rebuses into the following categories: However there are other forms of rebus which rely on a graphical play of the words or word order (an example can be found in #10 of the Gazette de Rebus puzzle) or in some cases, words symbolizing other words in a complex riddle for a call-and-response (as with this example by Phillis Wheatley Peters.) A rebus is most commonly known to be a puzzle where a message is encoded in some way by pictures replacing words in part or as a whole. There are many definitions of the term rebus, which is from the latin phrase for “by things” ( M-W Online) and in many cases has been attributed to the phrase “non verbis, sed rebus” (not by words, but by things) ( Wikipedia, first citation). In approaching a large collection of puzzles and rebuses such as those of the Reading Rebus project, it’s natural to wonder why the form exists and how it has permeated so many parts of the world’s imagination. What We’re Talking about When We’re Talking about Rebuses by Rachel Dixon
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