Figures of Speech :

Puns

 

 

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.

Puns often rely on homonyms.

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Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.

He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.

To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you an A-flat minor

A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was a nurse said 'No change yet'.

He didn't tell his mother that he ate some glue. His lips were sealed.

Did you hear about the fire at the circus? The heat was in tents.

A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

I like to add—sum times.

Ketchup on hot dogs? I can hardly relish the thought.