Pun | Pun Meaning, Definition, Examples & Illustration

Pun | Pun Meaning, Definition, Examples & Illustration

Pun | Pun Meaning, Definition, Examples & Illustration

Pun | Pun Meaning, Definition, Examples & Illustration

Pun (also called paronomasia) is a figure of speech that involves a wordplay suggesting two or more meanings. It is often used for humorous or rhetorical effects. Sometimes it provides verbal ambiguity and bewilders the listeners. Examples:

1. If a man loses his wife, he pines for a ‘second’. (Here, the pun is made on the word ‘second.’ It may either mean ‘for a very short time’ or ‘for a second wife’)
2. The leopard changes its ‘spots’ whenever it goes from one ‘spot’ to another.

(The first ‘spots’ is used in the sense of ‘small round marks on the body of a leopard’ and the second ‘spot’ is used in the sense of a particular place.)

3. Her cat is near the computer to keep an eye on the ‘mouse’. (In this statement the pun is made with the word ‘mouse’ i.e. it may mean either a mouse (creature) or the input tool or a computer.)
4. Make like a tree and ‘leave’. (Here the pun is made with the word ‘leave’.
5. The road to success is always under ‘construction’. 0 0 0.

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N. B. The article ‘Pun | Pun Meaning, Definition, Examples & Illustration‘ originally belongs to the book ‘The Rhetoric‘ by Menonim Menonimus.

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Books of Composition by M. Menonimus:

1. Advertisement Writing
2. Amplification Writing
3. Note Making
4. Paragraph Writing
5. Notice Writing
6. Passage Comprehension
7. The Art of Poster Writing
8. The Art of Letter Writing
9. Report Writing
10. Story Writing
11. Substance Writing
12. School Essays Part-I
13. School Essays Part-II
14. School English Grammar Part-I
15. School English Grammar Part-II