What is the term that describes the word play found below?
“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream”
Another example might be the punchline: "Orange you glad to see me"?
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What is the term that describes the word play found below?
“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream”
Another example might be the punchline: "Orange you glad to see me"?
Best Answer
As other answers have noted, these are examples of puns.
But what sort of puns? The Reader's Digest condensed version ("What's that?") of the Wikipedia article may help us decide: