M2L1-4 Vocabulary Quiz

Playful or clever use of words to create humor.

• Homograph
• Wordplay
• Idiom
• Delivery

A humorous play on words based on two words or phrases that are close in sound but different in meaning.

• Audience
• Homophone
• Wordplay
• Pun

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

• Idiom
• Audience
• Homophone
• Adapt

Two or more words that are spelled the same but have different meanings (and sometimes different pronunciations); often referred to as multiple-meaning words.

• Pun
• Homophone
• Peculiar
• Homograph

A phrase or expression that means something other than the literal meaning of its individual words.

• idiom
• Delivery
• Pun
• Peculiar

To change; to alter as a result of changes to the environment.

• Delivery
• Riddle
• Adapt
• Idiom

The technique or way in which something is said

• Pun
• Homophone
• Delivery
• Peculiar

A group of people who watch or listen to a performance.

• Delivery
• Audience
• Adapt
• Idiom

Abnormal or different from the usual expectation.

• Homophone
• Peculiar
• Homograph
• Pun