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Puns - a play on words

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Definition and examples - how puns work and why are they funny. Includes some activities.

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DEFINITION -

A PUN is a play on words,

exploiting the MULTIPLE meanings of words that sound the same (HOMONYM) or similar.

OR a pun relies on the audience’s prior knowledge of IDIOMS or common sayings.

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FAMOUS PUNS

Hypochondria is the only disease I haven't got.

Bowling Alley: Please be quiet. We need to hear a pin drop.

A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motionA pun is its own reword

Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man

I went to buy camouflage pants, but I couldn’t find any

Guy goes into the doctor's."Doc, I've got a cricket ball stuck up my backside"How's that?""Don't you start" KFC are pretty popular. They sell food by

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IDIOM!

Using the audience’s knowledge of the common saying “Hit the Road”, meaning to leave, the visual pun of the character, physically striking the road.

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HUMOUR!

Also called DOUBLE ENTENDRE, BLUE HUMOUR, SEXUAL INNUENDO or RISQUE HUMOUR.

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Laughing at something that is usually considered depressing. Also called GALLOWS HUMOUR or MACABRE

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YOUR TURN

Rename famous book titles to target a specific audience…

FOR EXAMPLEA book that would appeal to a gardener?

Charlie & The Great Grass ElevatorTomorrow When the Worms BeganTaming of the Shrubs

A book that would appeal to a clown?

an electrician?

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YOUR TURN

“Snappy capture of attach alligator”

“Between a Bok and a hard place” (About the remote chances of the Welsh rugby team beating the South African team)

“Waugh cry as Aussies blast off”

Newspaper Headlines

• Find 3 headlines that use puns

• Create 3 pun headlines of your own (and a one sentence explanation of the news story)