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Puns

Puns. A play on words; using words that sound nearly alike but are but are different in meaning. If a clock is hungry, it can always go back four seconds. I work as a baker because I knead the dough. Mercutio : Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.

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Puns

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  1. Puns A play on words; using words that sound nearly alike but are but are different in meaning

  2. If a clock is hungry, it can always go back four seconds. I work as a baker because I knead the dough.

  3. Mercutio: Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance. Romeo: Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes.With nimble soles; I have a soul of leadSo stakes me to the ground I cannot move. Sampson: Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals. Gregory: No, for then we should be colliers. Sampson: I mean, and we be in choler, we’ll draw. Gregory: Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar. Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep where they do dream things true.

  4. Oxymoron A figure of speech where two contradictory words are placed together.

  5. What is it? Hint: It was recently elected mascot of oxymorons. Jumbo Shrimp Compared to any other food item, there is nothing JUMBO about them.

  6. Hip-hop Examples “…and wanna silence me. They wanna do me violence, but even my silence speaks.”-Kenyatta “My sleeves are stuffed with better ways to say thingsI pull them out at the first hint of the spell breakingReal magic making for an honorable mention”-Despot “The proper crop of jumbo shrimp”-SugaFree “Poor Lil Rich”-a song by 50 Cent

  7. Why? Oxymorons are often inserted to highlight absurdities, or to explain complicated or intense feelings—so complicated that they can only be explained by words that don’t make sense. R&J Act 1 s.1

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