Pun

unconscious. “What is…’’ the host resumed. “Yes?” Bob thought. “What is…” the host continued. “Yes?!!” Bob thought mildly irritated. “What is your category, Bob,” the host finally spoke. “Oh,” Bob explained,” I wasn’t paying attention. I pick puns.” “Eggcellent” the host joked with a devilled grin,”How did I get out of…

In Love’s Labour’s Lost, for instance, the main characters participate in a verbal sparring match that, while clearly obscene in nature, is conveyed through metaphors, puns, and wordplay centered around allusions to shooting, pricks, horns, and targets rather than intercourse itself. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cupid is a prominent mythological entity that serves as a fickle commentary on the perception of love, as…

flavor of both French and English cultures. Unfortunately, there are instances where the sense along with humor is lost or not as transparent as it might have been, e.g.: ‘Pull?' he said, as if he wanted to do just that to various sensitive parts of my body. It was translated as: - Pull? - powiedział, jakby chciał pociągnąć mnie za różne, najbardziej wrażliwe części ciała. The name of the protagonist has been misspelled by one of his French colleagues into Pull. For the English reader the…

usual like bees frantically trying to collect their honey. The lockers slamming shut, the laughing, footsteps, and hushed whispers morph into a gentle murmur encasing me. I walk up to my friends Jayden and Rachel, who are laughing at one of the many puns that flutter through the halls. When the first bell is about to ring the three of us gather our things and and scurry to our class. I place my binder on the floor of my keyboarding access class. The laughing and socializing continues until…

393 U.S. 503, 513 (1969). The students in Tinker, conducted a silent, and passive protest. Id. at 508. Conversely, Elizabeth handed her shirts out to other students, started waving them, and jumped on a picnic table. R-33. Next, she shouted out puns related to guns and encouraged others to do the same. Id. Another student began to rap while standing next to Elizabeth on the picnic table, which lead to the students surrounding the table to join in with the rapping…

The book and the movie had shared many similarities. Both had portrayed a very similar atmosphere. Reading the book and viewing the movie I was able to discover many similarities that crossed between the two. I enjoyed the book more as it focused on each individual character's emotion. Able to familiarize with the characters better. The movie seemed as if it didn't present the deep, emotional and big/major moments as well as I would have liked. For example, when George had killed Lennie and the…

Shakespeare uses various forms of poetry throughout the narrative. He begins with a prologue in the form of 14 online Shakespeare sonnet, spoken by a Chorus. Most of Romeo and Juliet was written in blank verse, and much of it in strict iambic pentameter, with a difference of less rhythmic than in most of the drama and Shakespeare. In choosing forms, Shakespeare poem against the character who uses it. Friar Laurence, for example, the use of sermons and form sententiae and nurse using a unique…

described to have “gone belly-up. His heart sinks / like a fish. He drinks / like a stone. Drowns those sorrow” (18-21). The use of the "belly-up" in these lines indicates that the love between the two fish has disappeared. When a fish is dead, the pun "belly-up" is usually used, as dead fish usually floats upside down. By using…

off with a sarcastic not serious tone. If the author is writing a serious article they he should not be joking about it. For instance, the title of the article is “Hooked on Myth” which is meant to intrigue on the audience, but at the same it is a pun because fishes are hook when they are caught.…

Petruccio: What, with my tongue in your tail? (II.i.207-214) This exchange between the two main characters occurs during their first meeting. Their conversation is an extraordinary display of verbal wit, with Petruccio making use of lurid sexual puns in order to undermine Katherine's standoffishness and anger. Other characters frequently compare Katherine to a dangerous wild animal, and in this case, Petruccio calls her a wasp. She replies angrily that if she is a wasp, he had better…