i need to get 2 puns. i dont even know what a pun is. can u please tell me what a pun is then give me a pun or 2 or even more? THANKS!!!
2006-09-28 13:54:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
A pun is a 'play on words' eg the Personal.Support.Worker in a nursing home tells the elderly resident who is getting their diaper changed and needs to hold on to a grab rail for support
" I shall now do my lawyer act - Approach the bar and I shall deal with your brief"
The scent she was wearing was 'sent by mail' (or 'sent by male')
2006-09-28 14:06:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whats A Pun
2016-12-15 07:04:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's pathetic, if you did your own homework you could get the same answers.
A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. A pun can rely on the assumed equivalency of multiple similar words (homonymy), of different shades of meaning of one word (polysemy), or of a literal meaning with a metaphor. Bad puns are sometimes called "cheesy".
Walter Redfern (in Puns, Blackwell, London, 1984) succinctly said: "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms".
In order to be able to pun effectively it is necessary that a language must include homonyms which may readily be misrepresented as synonyms. Languages with complex gender or case structures tend not to facilitate this, although puns can be constructed in all languages with varying degrees of difficulty; i.e. puns are said to be easy to construct in languages such as Chinese or English, but rarer in Russian.
I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
2. Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
3. He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.
4. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
5. I couldn't quite remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to me.
duncan - Victoria, BC
6. A doctor drank while putting on patients' casts. He was soon plastered.
7. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
8. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.
9. A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.
10. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
2006-09-28 13:59:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
a play on words which have the same sound but different meanings)
the pun is mightier than the sword, and justice is no yoke!
Once u pun a time somebody asked me " Do you think puns are fun?" I replied "I do" ... since then I've been tied up with them....... (not very funny? I'm o pun to suggestions)
2006-09-28 14:00:27 · answer #4 · answered by mariezernalynpalmares 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pun is a play on words
For example:
A pun is the lowest form of wit-- A bun is the lowest form of wheat.
Or, there was once a baker who had a knife so big that he could slice four loaves of bread at the same time. He called it a "four loaf cleaver".
There was once a rancher who had several boys who ran a cattle ranch, which was named "Focus". The rancher gave it that name because that is where the sun's rays meet and the sons raise meat.
2006-09-28 14:09:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pun is a play on words. Like using homynims as a joke
Examples:
The female pig didn't like the male pig because he was a boar
Dont be a lawer, his life is a series of trials
2006-09-28 13:58:15 · answer #6 · answered by piguyfun 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pun is a variety of a usually humorous play on words involving
the multiple meanings of an expression, or
two expressions that sound similar.
2006-09-28 13:57:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pun is a play on words.
The king was angry with his court jester, so he locked him in the closet and told him he would not be let out until he made a pun.
The jester yelled, "oh pun the door"!
2006-09-28 13:58:13 · answer #8 · answered by Mad Roy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's when the same word is used to mean different things, and is usually humourous. Sometimes, the word sounds the same to mean a different thing. The pun I remember one from the little house books about farming and how the gofurs were eating the crops: "One seed for the gofurs. Two seed for the gofurs. Three seeds for the gofurs. Four seeds don't gofur."(meaning go far, in case you didn't get it)
2006-09-28 14:00:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pun is just a funny little play on words, like...
What do they call a dog with no legs, who lays in front of your door? Matt.
What do you call the same dog if you toss him into the ocean? Bob.
2006-09-28 13:59:02 · answer #10 · answered by Lisa E 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋