This document defines and provides examples of pun and assonance. A pun is a play on words that uses different meanings of the same word or similar sounding words. Assonance is the repetition of internal vowel sounds in words located near each other in a sentence or phrase to create rhythmic verses. Examples of puns include a motto about doing something sooner and a joke about a man jumping off the Eiffel Tower. Examples of assonance include short phrases and lines from a poem that repeat vowel sounds.

1. PUN AND ASSONANCE

2. PUN
 a play on words, sometimes on
different senses of the same word and
sometimes on the similar sense or
sound of different words.
Words which sound the same but have
different meanings.

3. EXAMPLES
The admiral’s motto was, ‘Do it schooner, not
later.
Did you hear about the French man who jumped
off the Eiffel tower wearing the parachute and
landed in the river? The police didn’t arrest him
because he was clearly in seine.

4. ASSONANCE
 is a literary device which is used
within sentence and phrases to create
rhythmic verses.
 Identity or similarity in sound between
internal vowels in neighboring words.

5. SHORT EXAMPLES OF ASSONANCE
Take the gun and have fun.
Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese.
Examples of assonance in poem
Life it seems will fade away
Drifting further everyday
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters, no one else

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