M2 Lesson 1-2 Vocab

playful or clever use of words to create humor

• Wordplay

• Homograph

• Homophone

• Idiom

Two words that SOUND the same but have different spellings and meanings

• Homograph

• Pun

• Homophone

• Adapt

Words that are SPELLED the same but have different meaning and sometimes different pronunciations

• Audience

• Peculiar

• Homophone

• Homograph

A phrase or expression that means something other than the literal meaning of its individual words

• Wordplay

• Idiom

• Pun

• Homophone

A humorous play on words or phrases that are close in sound but different in meaning

• Pun

• Wordplay

• Idiom

• Homograph

To change; to alter as a result of changes to the environment

• Audience

• Delivery

• Peculiar

• Adapt

The technique or way in which something is said

• Adapt

• Deilvery

• Pun

• Wordplay

A group of people who watch or listen to a performance

• Homophone

• Audience

• Delivery

• Pun

Abnormal or different from the usual expectation

• Peculiar

• Adapt

• Homophone

• Homograph

Which is NOT one of the baseball positions from Who's on First?

• Who

• What

• Because

• Who Cares