The document discusses different types of puns, including homophonic puns, homographic puns, heteronymic puns, homonymic puns, compound puns, visual puns, and symbolic puns. It provides examples of each type, such as George Carlin's phrase "atheism is a non-prophet institution" using a homophonic pun. Puns are commonly used for humor in jokes, comedy, parody songs, and movies. They are also used as a poetic device in classic English literature by authors like Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde.

2. Nafisa Hassan
M.A (English)-3rd Semester
University Of South Asia Arifwala Campus.

4. Introduction
• The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of
word play that suggests two or more meaning,
by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or
of similar-sounding words for an intended
humorous or rhetorical effect.pun used to
create humer.the Roman playwright Plautus is
famous for his tendency to make up and
change the meaning of words to create puns
in Latin.

5. For example
• Henri Bergson defined a pun as a sentence or
utterance in which "the same sentence
appears to offer two independent meaning.

6. Types of puns
• 1 )homophonic pun,
• 2)homographic pun
• 3) heteronymic puns
• 4)Homonymic
• 5)compound pun
• 6)Visual puns
• 7)symbol

7. • Homophonic pun, a common type, uses word
pairs which sound alike homophones but are not
synonymous. For example
• In Georag carlin ,s phrase “atheism is a non-
prophet institution "the word “prophet “ is put in
place of its homophone profit ,altering the
common phrase non-profit institution .
• homographic pun exploits words which are
spelled the same but possess different meanings
and sounds
• Homonymic puns, another common type, arise
from the exploitation of words which are both
homographs and homophones

8. • Compound puns may also combine two
phrases that share a word.
• Visual puns are used in many logos,
emblems, insignia, and other graphic symbols,
in which one or more of the pun aspects are
replaced by a picture
• Symbol the use of a symbol in such a way as to
suggest two or more meaning or different
associations.

9. Use in a comedy and literature
• Pun are a common source of humors in jokes
and comedy shows. They are often used in the
punch line of a joke .pun also used in a
parody song, movie etc.
• Used in a literature non humorous puns were
and are a standard poetic device in English
literature. for example William Shakespeare,
Oscar wiled, and George Carlin.

10. Some other examples
• In which the punned words typically exist in
two different parts of speech often on unusual
sentence construction
• An example which combines homophonic and
homographic punning is Douglas Adams's line
“you can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish.