Puntastic! Exploring Puns
This worksheet helps 8th-grade students understand and identify puns, a common form of figurative language.
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Puntastic! Exploring Puns
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Read each section carefully and answer the questions to demonstrate your understanding of puns. 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.
Read the following sentences. Underline the pun and explain its two meanings.
1. I've been to the dentist many times, so I know the drill.
2. Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired.
3. The chef was feeling a little bleu after his cheese went missing.
Choose the best explanation for the pun in each sentence.
1. I used to be a baker, but I couldn't make enough dough.
Dough refers to baking ingredients.
Dough refers to money.
Both a and b.
The sentence has no pun.
2. What do you call a lazy kangaroo? Pouch potato.
Pouch refers to a kangaroo's pocket.
The phrase sounds like 'couch potato'.
Both a and b.
Kangaroos are often lazy.
Complete the following sentences with a word that creates a pun.
1. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. It was a .
2. What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A .
3. I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put .
Create two original puns. For each pun, write the sentence and then explain the two meanings of the word you used to create the pun.
1. Pun:
Explanation:
2. Pun:
Explanation: