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title: "Pun — Zeugma — Irony — Malapropism"
description: "Pun is the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings o..."
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# Pun — Zeugma — Irony — Malapropism

> Pun is the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings o...

***Pun is *** the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound.

A pun is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. A pun can rely on the assumed equivalency of multiple similar words (homonymy), of different shades of meaning of one word (polysemy), or of a literal meaning with a metaphor. Bad puns are often considered to be cheesy.

Examples

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Sea captains don't like crew cuts. Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. A gossip is someone with a sense of rumor. Without geometry, life is pointless. When you dream in color, it's a pigment of your imagination. Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion. Reading while sunbathing makes you well-red. When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I. Alarms: What an octopus is. Crick:: The sound that a Japanese camera makes. Dockyard: A physician's garden.
```

 

**A salt with a deadly weapon = Assault with a deadly weapon!**

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![Pun — Zeugma — Irony — Malapropism](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/lily92/6ganNusCR2jnZcdATJvWTiMJVemk8N.jpg)

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![Pun — Zeugma — Irony — Malapropism](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/lily92/FNS1L5bYggl2eyd9Fimbh5mN4YXm4s.jpg)

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**Zeugma is the use of a [word](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/word) to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or isappropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught threetrout and a cold.**

## Problems with Zeugma

Sometimes, when people try to use a zeugma in their writing, they will find themselves bordering on dangling modifier issues. It's important to use zeugma in the clearest ways possible and to always have a purpose for doing so.

Zeugma examples

- "The addict kicked the habit and then the bucket." ([Zeugma](http://www.examples-help.org.uk/zeugma.htm))

- "She exhausted both her audience and her repertoire." ([I Love India](http://fos.iloveindia.com/zeugma-examples.html))

- "To wage war and peace." ([I Love India)](http://fos.iloveindia.com/zeugma-examples.html)

- "She looked at the object with suspicion and a magnifying glass." (Charles Dickens, [I Love India)](http://fos.iloveindia.com/zeugma-examples.html)

- She looked at her the scene with her eyes and fear.

- "It was curtains for him and the window." ([I Love India](http://fos.iloveindia.com/zeugma-examples.html))

- "He held a high rank and an old notepad." ([I Love India](http://fos.iloveindia.com/zeugma-examples.html))

- "His boat and his dreams sank." ([I Love India)](http://fos.iloveindia.com/zeugma-examples.html)

- His heart and his love fled away.

![Pun — Zeugma — Irony — Malapropism](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/lily92/PnHy6rScKwycVYunkhfqEtxOhCWFGu.jpg)

** is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning**

** Examples**

- Posting a video about how boring and useless Facebook is on Facebook.

- My friend said he can't go to church because he has a theology test to study for!

- The firehouse burns down.

- The police station was robbed.

- The teacher failed the test.

- The student who didn't study passed the test.

- The marriage counselor gets a divorce

**Malapropism**

is the production of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical, often humorous utterance.

![Pun — Zeugma — Irony — Malapropism](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/lily92/NKk40Do2v0Rv4te1M1zzMiDs61LECl.jpg)

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