Puns and usage

9. I rarely look (shipshape, trim) in my clothes.

• shipshape

• trim

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Puns are a (1)........... use of the meaning of words that either sound the same or have ........ (2) spellings

• (1)humorous

  (2)similar

• (1)words

  (2)similar

• (1)humorous

  (2) 4 different...

• (1)humorous

  (2) the same

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Why do ___________________ grow forever?

• Mountains

• Particle

• Climate

• Volcano

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And our names are . . . 

• Slinky and Slimey
• Greenguy and Redman
• Gumby and Pokey
• Bob and Brad

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Chlorophyll could be described as

• a cleaning agent

• a type of organism

• a green leaf

• chlorophyll, more like borophyll

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Which of the following is a play on words?

• Allusion
• Pun
• Idiom
• Apostrophe

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I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then...

• (A) it hit me,

• (B) someone yelled, "fowl!" ,

• (C) the referee handed me a basketball,

• (D) I saw stars.

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a play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word. Two silkworms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

• imagery

• simile

• pun

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Is this a pun?

Fish are so smart because they live in schools.

• True

• False

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A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

• pun

• joke

• riddle

• oxymoron

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