Voorbeelden van punning

• Too clever by half - and yet punning is simply putting things together in a witty and unexpected way.

• Though the punning element is usually at the end of the phrase, instances are not uncommon where the pun is formed on the first element.

• Such techniques as punning, oxymoron, and hyperbole are employed by ad-men to lure customers for their clients.

• The linguistic form of these texts is an extended, specialized kind of punning.

• The pragmatic function may be intensified through the use of common rhetorical devices such as alliteration, punning, and pseudo-direct quotes.

• These names are a form of wordplay that usually involves metaphor or punning, and many residents consider these names to be both funny and clever.

• The final chapter, with its punning title ' re-membering ', has some interesting things to say about mourning and commemoration but also serves to take the book off in yet another direction.

• It is an act of class warfare in the punning sense of the word, in that it attacks the child in the class.

• Subtle punning is also aplenty in his comics but the main source of comedy is slapstick.

• Fountainheads of strength are found in such features as antithesis, alliteration, euphoniousness, punning, obviousness, and brevity.

• He is known for his constant in-joking and punning on the intersection between socialist ideologies and computer programming, as well as other fields.

• It typically consisted of doggerel punning rhymes, giving the names of the chief personages in the procession and alluding to their individual characteristics.

• Type punning is another example of such an escape feature.

• Thus, by a sort of punning process, the gentleman becomes a gentle-man.

• Alternatively, homophonic translation may be used for humorous purpose, as bilingual punning (macaronic language).