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Pun The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or metaphorical language. A pun differs from a malapropism in that a malapropism uses an incorrect expression that alludes to another (usually correct) expression, but a pun uses a correct expression that alludes to another (sometimes correct but more often absurdly humorous) expression. Henri Bergson defined a pun as a sentence or utterance in which "two different sets of ideas are expressed, and we are confronted with only one series of words". Puns may be regarded as in-jo…

Life is like a box of crayons. Life is a tenor word, like is a link word and A box of crayons is a vehicle. We can paint our lives what colour we want. If we are sad the colours of our lives become grey and dark. But if we are happy everything around us is bright and cheerful. Life is like a roller-coaster. Life is a tenor word, like is a link word and A roller-coaster is a vehicle. Life is different. We cannot be happy every moment of our lives. Sometimes we feel inspiration sometimes we are depressed. It’s normal. Life is like a bowl of cherries. Our live is precious because it’s not eternal. These cherries are seconds of our life and we shouldn’t miss a thing. Life is like a hurricane. Life is a tenor word, like is a link word and A hurricane is a vehicle. We live in the era of changes…

Epithet a rhetorical term for an adjective (or adjective phrase) used to characterize a person or thing. Adjective: epithetic. A Homeric epithet (also known as fixed or epic) is a formulaic phrase (often a compound adjective) used habitually to characterize a person or thing (for example, "blood-red sky" and "wine-dark sea"). In contemporary usage, epithet often carries a negative connotation and is treated as a synonym for "term of abuse" (as in the expression "racial epithet"). See Safire, below. Examples and Observations: "Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."(Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) "In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited theepithet of revolutionary; an…

Metonymy Metonymy - a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). Metonymy is also the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it, such as describing someone's clothing to characterize the individual. Adjective: metonymic. Examples and Observations: "Many standard items of vocabulary are metonymic. A red-letter day is important, like the feast days marked in red on church calendars. . . . On the level of slang, a redneck is a stereotypical member of the white rural working class in the Southern U.S., originally a reference to necks sunburned from working in the fields." (Connie Eble, "Metonymy." The Oxford Companion to the English Language, 1992) "F…

Hyperbole Hyperbole - exaggeration for the sake of emphasis in a figure of speech not meant literally. An everyday example is the complaint ‘I've been waiting here for ages.’ Hyperbolic expressions are common in the inflated style of dramatic speech known as bombast, as in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra when Cleopatra praises the dead Antony: His legs bestrid the ocean: his reared arm Crested the world. Some examples: He is as big as a house James runs faster than a speeding bullet My backpack weighed a ton It is raining extremely hard outside. I am so tired I could sleep for a year. My backpack weighed a ton. It is raining extremely hard outside. I am so tired I could sleep for a year. Hyperboleisan artterm usedin the literature forexaggeratingthe propertiesof objects orpeople'sabili…