A pun is play on words. Explain the pun used by the children in their song about flu
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A pun is a play on words, either on different senses of the same word or on the similar sense or sound of different words. Known in rhetoric as paronomasia.
Puns are figures of speech based on the inherent ambiguities of language. Although puns are commonly regarded as a childish form of humor, they are often found in advertisements and newspaper headlines. Poet Louis Untermeyer said that punning is like poetry: "something every person belittles and every person attempts."
A person who is fond of making puns is called a punster. (The punster, it has been said, is a person who enjoys hearing his friends groan.)
A pun is play on words. Explain the pun used by the children in their song about flu
The children refer to the bird as ‘Enza’. They open the window
and Enza flies into the room. ‘In-flu-enza’ can be understood as
‘in-flew-Enza’. It showcases a hidden meaning that influenza has
also come into the room through the window.
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