A word play suggesting, with humorous intent, the different meanings of one word or the use of two or more words similar in sound but different in meaning. (From Poetry Glossary)
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
A humorous substitution of words that are alike in sound but different in meaning, as in this passage from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll:
“And how many hours a day did you do lessons?” said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
“Ten hours the first day,” said the Mock Turtle, “nine the next, and so on.”
“What a curious plan!” exclaimed Alice. “That's the reason they're called lessons,” the
Gryphon remarked: “because they lessen from day to day.”
Why did the kid bring scissorsscissors to school?
•So he could cutcut class.
Written by Anglela, age 11 - Tom Swifities Link
How do mountains hearmountains hear?
Written Dave, age 10- Tom Swifities Link
•With mountaineersmountaineers.
What was the reporterreporter doing at the ice cream ice cream shopshop?
•Getting the scoopscoop!
Tom Swifities Link
How do you fix a broken broken tomatotomato? ?
Tom Swifities Link
•With tomato pastetomato paste.TomatTomat
o o PastePaste
Why did the spiderspider go to the computercomputer?
Written by Rachel - Tom Swifities Link
•To check his web siteweb site.
Why is a crossword puzzlecrossword puzzle like a quarrelquarrel?
•Because one word leads to one word leads to another. another.
(Joseph Rosenbloom
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