Chemistry puns With a wild imagination and a flair for puns‚ you will be able to use the names of many of the elements to take the place of other words or phrases. Some are very straightforward‚ but many of homonyms require a stretch of the imagination. Be creative and have pun! 1. Police officer. 2. Lone Ranger’s horse. 3. If they are not here‚ they ___________. 4. To press a blouse. 5. Motto for an oil well?drilling company. 6. What should you do with dead people’s bodies? 7. A fixture in
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26 Zeugma and Pun Zeugma is the use of a word in the same grammatical but different semantic relations to two neighboring words in the context‚ the semantic relations being‚ on the one hand‚ literal‚ and‚ on the other‚ transferred. "Dora‚ plunging at once into privileged intimacy and into the middle of the room". (B. Shaw) ’To plunge’ (into the middle of a room) materializes the meaning ’to rush into’ or ’enter impetuously’. Here it is used in its concrete‚ primary‚ literal meaning; in ’to plunge
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Evaluation 1 On 12th of December we went to Stifford Clays Primary and performed our piece to 180 year 4’s and 5’s. When we got there we had to straight away bring in our set and therefore had to quickly work out our staging. We all agreed to have the boards on a slant so that we could get changed and await our queues without the children seeing us as if they did it would ruin the illusion. We did this and got changed into our costumes in 20 minutes which I thought was really good and professional
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meanings. English pun is one of the important figures of speech‚ and the skillful use of puns makes advertising language vivid and humorous. This paper explores punning and the translation of puns in English advertisements. It deals with various ways to form puns‚ and the techniques used in translating puns in English advertisements. Key Words: advertising English‚ advertisement‚ pun‚ translation""ContentsAcknowledgementsiAbstractiiii1Introduction12The Characteristics of Puns Used in Advertisements22
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placed puns in the poems‚ plays‚ and some sonnets. A pun is a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. These puns are either overlooked‚ unrecognized‚ or not credited well enough. The puns that Shakespeare utilizes in each of his works can have either an erotic‚ humorous‚ or an ironic purpose to give a deeper‚ more effective meaning to the stories. Before one can go into detail about the puns that Shakespeare
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Tragedy and Drama In a range of dramatic works from Agamemnon to Hamlet‚ one sees the range of development of the tragic form‚ from the earliest Greek to the later Shakespearean tragedies. There are two basic concepts of tragedy: the concept introduced by Aristotle in his Poetics‚ and the concept developed by Frederick Nietzsche in his "The Birth of Tragedy." Many dramas can be reviewed to reveal the contrast between these two concepts of tragedy‚ and demonstrate the development of the tragic
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John Therry Catholic High School Assessment Task Outline Creative Arts: HSC Drama 2013 Area of Study: Contemporary Australian Drama Task Outline Part A) Students are to present a group performance blending two scenes from the texts set for study (Stolen and Ruby Moon). A journal is to be submitted to accompany the performance Part B) A 1200 word essay answering the following question is to be submitted Notification Date: Week 1A Term 1 – Friday 1st February 2013 Date Due: Week
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26/2/13 Dear Logbook‚ Today before drama class started I was really tired and really couldn’t be bothered for class. I hope this didn’t affect what happened in class‚ I don’t think it had that much of an affect. Mr McPhee gave us a lot of talks today which provided us with less time to work in our groups. After Mr McPhee marked the roll he told us about the new school policy with mobile phones. Instead of only getting punished during school hours with a mobile phone‚ this policy now applies even
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Angel Parrett Professor Muller English 106/ Drama Essay 15 May 2006 Drama Essay Trifles Trifles‚ Susan Glaspell’s play written in 1916‚ reveal concerns of women living in a male dominated society. Glaspell communicates the role that women were expected to play in late 19th century society and the harm that can come of it to women‚ as well as men. The feminist agenda of Trifles was made obvious‚ in order to portray the lives of all women who live oppressed under male domination. John and
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Puns are an incredibly hilarious play on words. Shakespeare use puns to make Romeo & Juliet more enjoyable. The sense of these puns are quiet easy to understand. Three of my favorite puns in Shakespeare‚ would be (dreamers often lie) I;iv;49-52 ‚ (grave man) III;i;65-66 ‚ and (give me a torch) I;iv;11-12. In the Elizabethan era puns were greatly appreciated. Puns always gave a great laugh to those who understood it. “Give me a torch. I am not for this
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