Wordplay and Language Quiz

What is the term for playful or clever use of words to create humor?

• Homophones

• Wordplay

• Audience

• Delivery

What are two or more words that have the same pronunciation but different spellings and different meanings (SOUND ALIKE words)?

• Homophones

• Idiom

• Adapt

• Peculiar

What does it mean to change or alter as a result of changes to the environment?

• Pun

• Adapt

• Delivery

• Audience

What is a humorous play on words based on two words or phrases that are close in sound but different in meaning?

• Homographs

• Idiom

• Pun

• Peculiar

What is a group of people who watch or listen to a performance called?

• Audience

• Delivery

• Wordplay

• Homophones

What are two or more words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and sometimes different pronunciations (MULTIPLE MEANING words)?

• Homographs

• Idiom

• Pun

• Peculiar

What is the technique or way in which something is said?

• Delivery

• Audience

• Adapt

• Wordplay

What is a phrase or expression that means something other than the literal meaning?

• Idiom

• Homophones

• Pun

• Peculiar

What term describes something abnormal or different from the usual expectation?

• Adapt

• Peculiar

• Audience

• Delivery

What did the hamburger name it's baby?

• Julia
• Patty
• Austin
• Justin