Puns and Irony

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

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

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

• it hit me,

• someone yelled, "fowl!" ,

• the referee handed me a basketball,

• I saw stars.

Is this a pun?

• True

• False

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

What word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters?

• Nothing

• Umm

• short- shorter

• love you

Did you hear about the optometrist who fell into a lens grinding machine and. . .

• made a spectacle of himself,

• was able to see a way out,

• became more transparent,

• concaved to the pressure?

Goodness! If the sun is so hot, what about the father.

• SARCASM

• IRONY

• PUN

Define Pun:

• Word humor where words that have two potential meanings compete within the same sentence; a humorous play on words.

• A pig who runs

• The main character in a humorous story

• The antagonist's desires

Irony means:

• A statement that says EXACTLY what really happened.

• A statement that says one thing but means another. There is a disconnect between what appears to happen and what really happened

• Physical comedy that creates embarassment

• A statement where things appear worse than they are