FIGURES OF SPEECH-PUN AND PARADOX

A play on words, either on different senses of the same word or on the similar sense or sound of different words. Also known as Paranomasia.

PUN

Noticing the bunch of bananas, the hungry gorilla went ape. He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the

Mercedes bends. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit

me. She had a photographic memory but never developed it.

Examples of PUN

A figure of speech in which a statement appears to contradict itself. Adjective: paradoxical.

PARADOX

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness." Let's say there is a bullet which can shoot through any

barrier. Let's also say there is an absolutely bullet-proof armor which no object can penetrate. What will happen if such a bullet hits such an armor?

Your mission is not to accept the mission. Do you accept?

Examples of PARADOX