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Things punning often describes (“punning ________”)
reference, allusion, title, motto, device, use, name, sense, epitaph, allusions, sonnets, style, play, phrase, references, names, epigram, nickname, inscription, language, titles, rhymes, lines, joke, translation, effect, possibilities, arms, connection, etymology, words, word, humor, verses, fashion, line, wit, speech, slogan, perversions, verse, associations, significance, proverb, comment, habit, riddles, relationship, passage, association, riddle, meaning, rhyme, dialogue, devices, remark, jingle, manner, jest, propensity, type, legend, headlines, term, reply, poem, jokes, suggestion, friend, rejoinder, potential, pseudonym, microscopist, mottoes, epitaphs, response, headline, compliment, meanings, derivation, humour, assonance, interpretation, art, etymologies, technique, emblem, vein, text, definition, conceit, syllepsis, contests, quotation, metaphor, conceits
How punning often is described (“________ punning”)
visual, such, sexual, much, verbal, mere, constant, elaborate, bilingual, serious, endless, brilliant, excessive, playful, clever, outrageous, frequent, deliberate, ingenious, ironic, complex, familiar, practical, similar, bawdy, poetical, etymological, internal, simple, obsessive, linguistic, sarcastic, unconscious, compulsive, musical, crude, bitter, joycean, broad, extensive, latin, childish, singular, literary, bad, allusive, obscene, atrocious, careful, sublime, cumbrous, subliminal, tiresome, shameless, interlingual, striking, comic, poetic, inappropriate, mild, sophisticated, scatological, ordinary, multilingual, conscious, persistent, desperate, gross, protracted, continual, inveterate, delicate, ablaut, dreadful, downright, heavy, witty, wild, pitiable, quaint, homophonic, coarsest, conceptual, earlier, treble, philosophical
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