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1. Nafisa Hassan M.A (English)-3rd Semester University Of South
Asia Arifwala Campus.
2. Introduction The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of
word play that suggests two or more meaning, by exploiting multiple
meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words for an intended
humorous or rhetorical effect.pun used to create humer.the Roman
playwright Plautus is famous for his tendency to make up and change
the meaning of words to create puns in Latin.
3. For example Henri Bergson defined a pun as a sentence or
utterance in which "the same sentence appears to offer two
independent meaning.
4. Types of puns 1 )homophonic pun, 2)homographic pun 3)
heteronymic puns 4)Homonymic 5)compound pun 6)Visual puns
7)symbol
5. Homophonic pun, a common type, uses word pairs which sound
alike homophones but are not synonymous. For example In Georag
carlin ,s phrase atheism is a non- prophet institution "the word
prophet is put in place of its homophone profit ,altering the
common phrase non-profit institution . homographic pun exploits
words which are spelled the same but possess different meanings and
sounds Homonymic puns, another common type, arise from the
exploitation of words which are both homographs and homophones
6. Compound puns may also combine two phrases that share a
word. Visual puns are used in many logos, emblems, insignia, and
other graphic symbols, in which one or more of the pun aspects are
replaced by a picture Symbol the use of a symbol in such a way as
to suggest two or more meaning or different associations.
7. Use in a comedy and literature Pun are a common source of
humors in jokes and comedy shows. They are often used in the punch
line of a joke .pun also used in a parody song, movie etc. Used in
a literature non humorous puns were and are a standard poetic
device in English literature. for example William Shakespeare,
Oscar wiled, and George Carlin.
8. Some other examples In which the punned words typically
exist in two different parts of speech often on unusual sentence
construction An example which combines homophonic and homographic
punning is Douglas Adams's line you can tune a guitar, but you
can't tuna fish.