Read, translate, analyse the following examples paying attention to pun and its stylistic function.

1. I walked past a gang of youths yesterday and one of them threw a piece of cheese at me, which hit me on the back of the head. I turned round and shouted, "That's not very mature!" Simon Ricketts - Isle of Man (UK)

2. Do you know why Noah's ark was built out of wood? They didn't have arc welders back then. Katrina E – Denver

3. My friend asked me to carve a sculpture out of a large rock. It was the hardest thing I've ever had to make! Chris – London

4. I used to like Russian dolls until I realised they were full of themselves!Paul - London, UK

5. Puns in Romeo and Juliet

Mercutio: Those dreamers often lie
Romeo: In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. Dreamers lie (are false), and lie (down)

Mercutio: You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings,
And soar with them above a common bound.
Romeo: I am too sore enpierced with his shaft

Mercutio (on being fatally wounded): Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

Sampson: Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals
Gregory: No, for then we should be colliers
Sampson: I mean, an [if] we be in choler, we'll draw
Gregory: Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar

Gregory: The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.
Sampson: ’Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant. When I have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the maids, and cut off their heads.
Gregory: The heads of the maids?
Sampson: Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt.

Give me a torch. I am not for this ambling. Being but heavy, I will bear the light.

What dost thou make us minstrels? And thou makes minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords.

We see the ground (earth/reason) whereon these woes do lie; But the true ground of all these piteous woes. We cannot without circumstance descry.

Mercutio: Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.
Romeo: Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes.
With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

6. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read."

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Leaf Me Alone.

Leaf me alone.

Don’t bark at me like an angry dog

Don’t tell me to branch out or try and spruce me up.

Yew maple me any way you wish

But I don’t want to go against my grain.

I like the roots I’ve got

And willow-er my standards not a jot

(Though you wood say they’re low enough already).

I’m knot going to rowan my life pining for you.

Don’t give me sage advice to make me poplar.

I’m alder than yew, your changes walnut stick.

I have the balsa knot bough before your Ivy League education

And I’ve found my grove,

Don’t blame me if I like acorny joke every now and then.

Yew can take that “holly-er than thou” attitude and shove it up your ash.

8. Inhale to the Chief My Kilo Americans. Let me Freak to you of a Homegrown Texan, who's Resin to the Highest Possession in this great Hallucination, the original Come-Pushing-It conservative, the Pass-the-Hemp of the Fume-Lighted States, George Drug-Use Bushel. He grew up near the Mescaline border. These days, he's Hippie-Critical, but Ounce upon a time, he was a Peyote animal. A-Codeine to some sources, he had a Morphine violation, but his Poppy Baled him out, and it never made the Papers. He studied Acid-uously, earned his LSD, and graduated Ganga cum Loaded. He came home to Marijuana those Texas girls. Then, opportunity Narced: a Grass-roots run for the Opiate Office. His campaign Stoners gave Sinsemilla Dealers, Amphetamine to IV advertising. But election day was a Heroine experience. The votes were Spliff. The lead Zig-Zagged for weeks. It was Reefer Count Madness! But thanks to the Supreme Snort, he won by a Nose. He's still Burning the Ropes of the job, with help from Colin Powder, former Head of the the Joint Sheafs of Stash. They're trying to Psychedelic-ate balance between Tokes cuts for the Roach, and helping the Needles, while Cheeching kids to Weed, by giving Tracks dollars to the Free Methodist Prayer Force. He's on a Roll, and we're all sitting on Ecstasy what he's Cocaine up next. So when you hear Inhale to the Chief, Just say Snow. (Champion Pun of the 2001 O. Henry Punoff)

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