Pun

A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. A pun can rely on the assumed equivalency of multiple similar words (homonymy), of different shades of meaning of one word (polysemy), or of a literal meaning with a metaphor.

See also

• Anagram
• Antanaclasis
• Forster's Syndrome
• Humor
• Insult
• Letter game
• Mondegreen
• Neologism
• Palindrome
• Polyptoton
• Portmanteau

:*List of portmanteaus

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• Riddle