Pun-tastic Fun: Exploring Wordplay
A Grade 7 ELA worksheet focusing on understanding and identifying puns, a common form of figurative language.
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Pun-tastic Fun: Exploring Wordplay
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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions. This worksheet will test your understanding of puns.
A pun is a form of wordplay that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. Puns often rely on homophones (words that sound alike but have different meanings) or words with multiple definitions. Understanding puns requires careful listening and attention to context.
1. Which of the following sentences contains a pun?
The cat sat on the mat.
I've been to the seafood diet. I see food and eat it.
The sun is a star.
She ran quickly down the street.
2. What makes the following sentence a pun: "Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything!"
It uses a simile.
It compares two unlike things.
It plays on two meanings of 'make up'.
It is a metaphor.
3. I used to be a baker, but I couldn't make enough .
4. What do you call a fake noodle? An .
5. Explain in your own words how a pun uses words to create humor.
6. A pun always involves two words that sound exactly the same but have different meanings.
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False
7. Write two original sentences that each contain a pun. Underline the word or words that create the pun.