puns a play on words; using words that sound nearly alike but are but are different in meaning
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Puns
A play on words; using words that sound nearly alike but are but are
different in meaning
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If a clock is hungry, it can always go back four seconds.
I work as a baker because I knead the dough.
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Mercutio: Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.
Romeo: Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes.With nimble soles; I have a soul of leadSo stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
Sampson: Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals.Gregory: No, for then we should be colliers.Sampson: I mean, and we be in choler, we’ll draw.Gregory: Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar.
Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep where they do dream things true.
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OxymoronA figure of speech where two
contradictory words are placed together.
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What is it?Hint: It was recently elected mascot of oxymorons.
Jumbo ShrimpCompared to any other food item,
there is nothing JUMBO about them.
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Hip-hop Examples
“…and wanna silence me. They wanna do me violence, but even my silence speaks.”-Kenyatta
“My sleeves are stuffed with better ways to say thingsI pull them out at the first hint of the spell breaking
Real magic making for an honorable mention”-Despot
“The proper crop of jumbo shrimp”-Suga Free
“Poor Lil Rich”-a song by 50 Cent
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Why?
Oxymorons are often inserted to highlight absurdities, or to explain complicated or
intense feelings—so complicated that they can only be explained by words that don’t
make sense.R&J
Act 1 s.1