What Is a Pun

What is a Pun?

• Words that sound the same but are spelled different 
• Play on words: a joke 
• An idiom 
• Pickle and onion mix

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Is this a pun?

• No 
• I don't know 
• Yes
• Maybe

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Are these puns?

• Yes
• No 
• Maybe so
• I'm hungry now

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Which one of these is considered a pun?

• It was like taking candy from a baby
• Kings worry about receding heir line
• This is a piece of cake

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What is the rhetorical term for punning?

• Paronomasia
• Persimmon
• Paragonimiasis

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Which of these is a pun?

• I would like to go to Holland someday. Wooden shoe?someday. Wooden shoe?
• Twinkle, Twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are
• Back to the future

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Which of these is a pun?

• Your like a shark
• What has eyes but can't see? A potato
• He runs like a Puma

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A pun uses like or as?

• True 
• False

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What do you call bears with no ears?

• No ear
• No hearing
• No bear
• B

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Which is the smallest?

• mars
• milky way
• galaxy
• the sun