Identifying and Using Puns

What is a Pun?

• Words that sound the same but are spelled different 

• Play on words: a joke 

• An idiom 

• Pickle and onion mix

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Are these puns?

• Yes

• No 

• Maybe so

• I'm hungry now

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Which of these is a pun?

• I would like to go to Holland someday. Wooden shoe?someday. Wooden shoe?

• Twinkle, Twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are

• Back to the future

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Is this a pun?

• True

• False

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Is this a pun?

• No 

• I don't know 

• Yes

• Maybe

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Which one of these is considered a pun?

• It was like taking candy from a baby

• Kings worry about receding heir line

• This is a piece of cake

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What is the rhetorical term for punning?

• Paronomasia

• Persimmon

• Paragonimiasis

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Is this a pun?
Fish are so smart because they live in schools?

• True

• False

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Is this a pun?
The winter dog wears his coat, but in the summer he wears his coat and pants.

• True

• False

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Is this a pun?
Teddy Bears are never hungry they are always stuffed

• True

• False

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