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SAI International School
STD – 6
LESSON NOTES – ENGLISH
Module: 35
POETIC DEVICE: PUN
Introduction: (Make note in your classwork notebook)
A pun is a play on words that produces a humorous effect by using a word that
suggests two or more meanings, or by exploiting similar sounding words that
have different meanings.
Humorous effects created by puns depend upon the ambiguities the words entail.
These ambiguities arise mostly in homophones and homonyms. For instance, in
the sentence, “A happy life depends on a liver,” the word liver can refer to the
bodily organ, or simply a person who lives. Similarly, in the saying “Atheism is a
non-prophet institution,” the word “prophet” is used instead of “profit” to produce
a humorous effect.
