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What is the difference between a pun and paronomasia?

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Question added by Khaled Belgacem , Teacher of English , Pioneer High School Gafsa
Date Posted: 2015/06/18

 

Paronomasia is a see also of pun. As nouns the difference between paronomasia and pun  is thatparonomasia is (rhetoric) a pun or play on words while pun is a joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused. As a verb pun is  to beat; strike with force; ram; pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder or pun can be to make or tell a pun; make a play on words.

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