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You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

Two fish swim into a concrete wall.

The one turns to the other and says, "Dam!"

I went to the butcher's the other day and I bet him 50 bucks that he couldn't reach the meat off the top shelf. He said, "No, the steaks are too high."

Types of Puns

Homophonic

Homographic

The lowest sort of humour?

Witty?

Reveals the complex nature of language?

Word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

What's a pun?

Benvolio

Shakespeare

Means:

benevolent

good-will

peacemaker

The Bard himself made over 3000 puns in the combined body of his works

Depends on words that sound the same but have different meanings

Two peanuts were walking down the street; one was assaulted.

("assaulted" sounds like "a salted").

Act 1, Scene 1

Lines 1 -4

carry coals: submit to humiliation

Depend upon words that look alike but have multiple meanings.

Did you hear about the optometrist who fell into a lens grinder and made a spectacle of himself?

colliers: people who work with coal

in choler: angry

collar: hangman's noose

Act 1, Scene 4

Do you think these are funny?

Romeo: Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling.

Being but heavy, I will bear the light.

Act 3 Scene 1

Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

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