The figure speech involved is called pun.
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Figure of Speech is a word or phrase that is not used in it's original way but in an imaginative way to insert special effect in para,phrase or stanza. It is basically a Figurative language.
Pun,A joke exploiting the different Possible meaning if a word or fact that there are words which sounds alike but have different meaning.
it is usually witty and humorous.
Some of the examples of Pun are
- Time flies like an arrow ,Fruit flies like a Banana.
- Pencil could be made with earsers at both ends but where is the Point.
- When clock is angry it goes back four seconds.
Some of Different Figure of Speech are :-
- Simile - It is used to compare one thing with another.
- Methaphor- it is used to compare thing symbolically.
- Alliteration- it is a type of figure of speech in which the repitition of word is used in single Sentence
- Personification- it is used to show a non-living object as Human.
Figures Of Speech :
A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is an intentional deviation from ordinary language, chosen to produce a rhetorical effect.
Punn OR Pun :
A pun is a joke that makes a play on words. A pun makes use of words that have more than one meaning, or words that sound similar but have different meanings, to humorous effect. The rhetorical term for punning is paronomasia, which literally means "to call a different name."
Kinds Of Figure Of Speech :
Simile and example :
Comparison between 2 unlike things using "like" or "as", "She was acting LIKE a pig."
Metaphor and example :
Direct Comparrison between 2 unlike things,
"She was a pig."
Onomatopoeia and example :
A word expressing a sound, "BOOM!!!"
Personification and example :
Giving human (i think PERSONifcation to remember) or characteristics to something nonhuman, "the branches DANCED in the wind"
Alliteration and example :
A series of words with the same beggining consonant sound, "She sells seashells on the sea shore."
Synecdoche and example :
Creating an image by using a part to represent a whole, "get your nose out of my buisness!!"
Submerged metaphor and example :
Indirect or implied comparison between two unlike things. This figure of speech usually uses a verb to make the implied comparison, "our lips zipped together."
Hyperbole and example :
Extreme exageration, "I've heard you say that a MILLION times before!"