The Phantom Tollbooth # 1

something that makes people laugh; comedy

• humor

• confusion

• pun

• homograph

a humorous play on similar sounding words with different meaning

• pun

• audience

• wordplay

• idioms

a group of people gathered to listen or observe someone or something

• audience

• tollbooth

• homophones

• wisdom

playful or clever use of words for fun

• wordplay

• homographs

• idioms

• humor

lack of certainty or understanding

• confusion

• idiom

• phantom

• audience

two or more words that have the same pronunciation but different spellings and different meanings

• homophones

• homographs

• tollbooth

• pun

bear and bare OR eye and I

• homophones

• homographs

• idioms

two or more words that are spelled the same but have different meanings

• homographs

• homophones

• idioms

• phantom

bat as in the animal or a wooden stick

• homographs

• homophones

• idioms

phrases or expressions that mean something other than the literal meaning of the individual words

• idioms

• homographs

• homophones

• word play