WORDPLAY (PUNS and DOUBLE ENTENDRE)
AMBIGUITY:One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know
ANTANACLASIS: If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm * Age is an issue of mind (brain) over matter. If you don't mind (pay attention, object to), it doesn't matter (interj. it's not important, da igual) * Your argument is sound (sensible, solid, reasonable). Nothing but sound (noise). * 1. That's a sound idea (sensata), 2. good (a sound health), 3 v. seem: It sounds as though you could do with a vacation (parece que necesitas)
CONJUNCTIONS: Einstein developed a theory about space, and it was about time too (interj: it was about time!) * I was struggling to figure out how lightning works (and) then it struck me. (1. hit, caer, 2. dawn on me, caí, se me ocurrio, 3. give the impression, seem: it strikes me as strange / an exageration); strike vs ray of light) * I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. (idea, occur: It never hit me that I would be 30 years old until I actually turned 30; If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it * Think outside the box; it's too late once you're in it. (after, when): You can watch TV after you've eaten * The first time I used an elevator it was really uplifting, then it let me down * I was going to look for my missing watch, but I could never find the time * I was going to buy a book on phobias, but I was afraid it wouldn't help me * I'd tell you a chemistry joke but I know I wouldn't get a reaction * I used to be / think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so / quite / too sure * I used to be a banker, but I lost interest * I used to be addicted to soap, but I'm clean now * I once heard a joke about amnesia, but I forgot / I've forgotten how it goes (now) *
My inferiority complex isn't as good as everyone else's (correlative) * If towels could tell jokes they would probably have a dry sense of humor.
ADVERBIAL CONJUNCTIONS: Jill broke her finger today, but on the other hand she was completely fine (While and whereas are conjunctions. They connect two clauses / elements in the same clause or sentence. On the other hand is not a conjunction, it is an adverbial conjunction. It goes at the beginning of the second clause and is usually separated from the rest of the sentence with a comma)
FEAR: My fear of roses is a thorny issue. I'm not sure what it stems from, but it seems likely I'll be stuck with it (in all likelihood) * I used to fear / have a fear of hurdles, but I got over it / I did get over it (in the end); to have a fear of drugs / failure: tener terror a. 2 v. The thing I fear most is fear. Michel de Montaigne, 3 fear that + clause. temo que: I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire. I used to fear being labeled / branded insane, but I was just being paranoid!; I used to fear you, now you fear me! Note: Fear is a transitive verb. It needs to act upon a noun. That means you can't put another infinitive verb (with to) next. If you put a gerund on the end (-ing), then the verb has become a noun and it works.
GRAMMAR: Hope with the indicative and wish with the subjunctive: My friend and I are moving into a tree house together. I just hope we never fall out (quarrel) * I (just) hope I never (have to) see you again; I hope I never have to do that again.
HOMOGRAPHIC PUNS: Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold (embrace) him. After marriage, she has to hold (grasp) him to make love to him. (Antimet.)
HOMOPHONIC PUNS: Sandwich * Anaphora: If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. (1 fig. become passionate, hervir, 2. dismiss from a job * Atheism is a non-prophet institution (homophone: profit) * If there was someone selling drugs in this place, weed know * take them for granite??
RHETORICAL FIGURES: Similes: Marriage is like a workshop, the husband works, the wife shops! * Hypophoras: Have you ever tried to eat a clock? It's very time consuming * Did you guys hear the joke about the wall? It is hilarious, I am still trying to get over it * So what if I don't know what apocalypse means!? It's not the end of the world!
RIDDLES (brain teasers): Why can't you / a man starve in the desert? Because of all the sand which is there * Why didn't the skeleton go to prom? Cause he had 'no body' to dance with. (figur. person) * How do you think the unthinkable? With an itheberg! * (what kind of rock is most likely to say) “I'm thinking the unthinkable”?. (An) Iceberg with a lisp. (speech impediment, ceceo, a kind of dyslalia * What's the definition of a will? It's a dead (downright) giveaway (1. present, 2. a sign revealing the truth, revelacion involuntaria: his accent was a dead giveaway that he was from New York, a New Yorker); Obviously, the blood sugar levels are a downright giveaway that you suffer from / have diabetes
STRUCTURES: Sleeping comes so naturally to me (that) I could do it with my eyes closed.
TRUST: Don't / Never trust an atom / atoms, they make everything up / they make up everything * I don't / Don't trust people that do acupuncture, they're (all) back stabbers (on Backstabbing) * Always trust a glue salesman. They tend to stick to their word (be inclined to, do often) * I don't trust these stairs because they're always up to something
I'm glad (that) I know sign language. It's pretty Handy (convenient, useful); I'm glad (that) you like it * I'm reading a horror story in Braille. Something bad is about to happen... I can feel it * To write with a broken pencil is pointless (senseless, useless, absurd, without sense or logic, sth that doesn't make any sense) * I had a dream I was drowning in orange soda. (It) Turned out it was just a Fanta sea * to become in the end: How did things turn out?; He turned out to be an enemy.
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PUNS: Word play or Paronomasia (Homophonic P., homographic P. and homonyms): ; Because of their nature, homographic Puns rely on sight more than hearing, contrary to homophonic puns: Being in politics is just like playing golf: you are trapped in one bad lie after another" puns on the two meanings of the word lie as "a deliberate untruth" and as "the position in which something rests"; A compound pun is a statement that contains two or more puns: Why can a man never starve in the Great Desert? Because he can eat the sand which is there / Because of all the 'sand which is there.
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NEW PUNS (Antanaclasis)
ANTANACLASIS: A rhetorical device in which a word is repeated and whose meaning changes in the second instance. It is a common kind of pun.
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