thumb|upright=1.25|Punch (magazine)|Punch, 25 February 1914. The cartoon is a pun on the word "Jamaica", which pronunciation is a [[homonym to the clipped form of "Did you make her?" ]]
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A pun is a joke that plays on words by using multiple meanings of the same word or words that sound alike. Puns matter because they're a common form of wordplay and humor that can appear in cartoons, magazines, and everyday conversation.
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- Types of puns
- Homophonic
- Homographic
- Homonymic
- Compounded
- Recursive
- Visual
- Paronomastic
- Metonymic
- Sylleptic/heteronymic
- Antanaclasistic
- Other
- Use
- Comedy and jokes
- Books never written
- Literature
- Shakespeare
- Rhetoric
- Design
- In the media
- Confusion and alternative uses
- History and global usage
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|upright=1.25|Punch (magazine)|Punch, 25 February 1914. The cartoon is a pun on the word "Jamaica", which pronunciation is a [[homonym to the clipped form of "Did you make her?" ]]
A pun, also known as a paronomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or figurative language.