Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 04, 2012
October 03, 2012
October 05, 2012
Transcript:
Pig: Hey, Goat. Whatcha watching? Goat: This new station from Britain. It has all these stories about the Chunnel. Pig: What's that? Goat: The undersea rail tunnel that spans the English Channel. It's all this network covers. Rat: What network? Pig; The English Channel Chunnel Channel. Rat: You sad little man.
A pun is based on homophones and misplaced meanings…. “Give peas a chance” and “Sticks float… you know they wood” are puns.
What Pastis did up there is called “consonance” … using repeated consonants for comic or poetic effect.It can also be called “parachesis,” which is repetition of sounds in general, especially whole syllables.“Fox in Sox” uses consonance and also is full of internal rhyme.Does anybody care?No.Why am I telling you?Because I can.:)