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Stylistics

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Dr. Inaam Hamdi Othman Perriman

• Clichés are expressions that have been overused to the point of losing their force. Many clichés were novel proverbs, so they have been used a lot. Now, they are generally used in negative contexts.

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• The Meaning: Can you speak? A question asked of a person who is at a loss for words. Sometimes sarcastically suggesting that a person won't be able to explain their way out of their current circumstances.

cat got your

tonguecat got your

tongue

•The Meaning: He revealed the secret.

He let the cat out of the

bagHe let the cat out of the

bag

•The Meaning: Good eating habits result in good health.

an apple a day keeps the doctor

awayan apple a day keeps the doctor

away

•The Meaning: She has plenty of money, more than she can use..

she's got money to burn.she's got money to burn.

•The Meaning: To see a situation more favorably than it really is; or to have a naively positive outlook on a situation or life in general.

See the world through rose colored

glassesSee the world through rose colored

glasses

•The Meaning: You can't do better than that.

You can't beat that with a

stickYou can't beat that with a

stick

•The Meaning: Family relations (relations by blood) are stronger than others.

Blood is thicker than

waterBlood is thicker than

water

• A PUN is an amusing use of a word or

phrase which has several meanings or

which sounds like another word.

PUN is a humorous play on words

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Homophonic puns use like sounds but with different spellings and meanings.• This is also referred to as Polyptoton.

Homographic puns make use of multiple

meanings from a single spelling.

• This is also referred to as “Antanaclasis".

1. HOMOHPHONIC1. HOMOHPHONIC

2. HOMOGHRAPHIC2. HOMOGHRAPHIC

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She said she wasn't pregnant but contractions speak louder then words.

contractions

Contraction of the words I am not

A

shortened

form of a

word

Movements of the

muscles in the

womb during the

process of birth

I ain't

pregnant

Homographic

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A circus lion won't eat clowns because they taste funny. funny

Causing

laughterStrange

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cHomographi

c

Being overweight

Being overweight

is no weigh

to liveis no weigh

to live

way

weigh

weighweigh

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Women who wear $200.00 perfume obviously are known to have no

common scents.

fragrance sense

HomophonicHomophonic

Key word

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Talking to her about

computer hardware, I make

my

mother boardmother board

HomophonicHomophonic

mother boardmother bored

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we’ve got to agree that

Seven days

without a PUN

makes

One weak

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One weak weak

week

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In respect to PUN, most of

the examples are taken from

Pun of the Day. Definition of

PUN : Cambridge Dictionary

and the clip-art is taken from

IC & clipart.

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