Puns A play on words; using words that sound nearly alike but are but are different in meaning.

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Puns A play on words; using words that sound nearly alike but are but are different in meaning

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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. Sampson: Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals. Gregory: No, for then we should be colliers. Sampson: I mean, and we be in choler, we’ll draw. Gregory: Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar. Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep where they do dream things true.

A figure of speech where two contradictory words are placed together. Oxymoron A figure of speech where two contradictory words are placed together.

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Hip-hop Examples “…and wanna silence me. They wanna do me violence, but even my silence speaks.” -Kenyatta “My sleeves are stuffed with better ways to say things I pull them out at the first hint of the spell breaking Real magic making for an honorable mention” -Despot “The proper crop of jumbo shrimp” -Suga Free “Poor Lil Rich” -a song by 50 Cent

Why? Oxymorons are often inserted to highlight absurdities, or to explain complicated or intense feelings—so complicated that they can only be explained by words that don’t make sense. R&J Act 1 s.1