高级英语修辞手法Pun

c. “My Faith is gone!” cried he, after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come devil; for to thee is this world given.” (Young Goodman Brown) faith : belief in God; his wife.
Pun
The humorous use of word or a combination of words so as to emphasize different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning. Eg. He has said the last word on the problem. last: authoritative Oh, tha’s the last word one can say. Last: the most improper Function: Lively, funny, humorous,
a. Perhaps from some vague rumor of his college honors which had been whispered abroad on his first arrival, perhaps because he was an unmarried, unencumbered gentleman, he had been called the Bachelor. b. Mr. Rochester continued blind the first two years of our union; perhaps it was that circumstance that drew us so near—that knit us so close; for I was then his vision, as I am still his right hand.பைடு நூலகம்Literally I was (what he often called me) the apple of his eye. He saw nature- he saw book through me;… (Jane Eyre)
Kinds: 1. the sound: take the advantage of close sound to form a pun. Eg. A trade, sir, that I hope, I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.(Shakespear, Julius Caesar) Sole: soul 2. On Sunday they pray for you and on Monday they prey on you. Pray; prey 2. the sense: to form the literal and deeper senses.