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A visual pun is a pun involving an image or images (in addition to or instead of language), often based on a rebus. Visual puns in which the image is at odds with the inscription are common in cartoons such as Lost Consonants or The Far Side as well as in Dutch gable stones .
The Chinese riddle-tradition makes much use of visual puns on Chinese characters. [4] One example is the riddle "千 里 会 千 金"; these characters respectively mean 'thousand kilometre meet thousand gold'. The first stage of solving the riddle is verbal:
Punch, 25 February 1914.The cartoon is a pun on the word "Jamaica", which pronunciation [dʒəˈmeɪkə] is a homonym to the clipped form of "Did you make her?". [1] [2]A pun, also known as a paronomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. [3]
A famous early example of canting arms: the castle representing the Kingdom of Castile and the lion representing the Kingdom of León. [1] Canting arms are heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name (or, less often, some attribute or function) in a visual pun or rebus. The expression derives from the latin cantare (to sing).
An ambigram is a visual pun of a special kind: a calligraphic design having two or more (clear) interpretations as written words. One can voluntarily jump back and forth between the rival readings usually by shifting one's physical point of view (moving the design in some way) but sometimes by simply altering one's perceptual bias towards a ...
Visual pun; W. Walk this way (humor) This page was last edited on 16 November 2017, at 23:33 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Chinese riddle-tradition makes much use of visual puns on Chinese characters. [96] One example is the riddle "千 里 会 千 金"; these characters respectively mean 'thousand kilometre meet thousand gold'. The first stage of solving the riddle is verbal:
The trademarked name "Droodle" suggests "doodle", "drawing" and "riddle". [2]However, the form of the droodle – a riddle expressed in visual form – has earlier roots, for example in a drawing (indovinelli grafici) by the Italian painter Agostino Carracci (1557–1602), and the term is widely used beyond Price's work.