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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 Mercutio: You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings, 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: The quarrel is between our masters and us their men. 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. 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
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.
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