Playing with words - because how you say it is as important as what you say. Plus it's fun!

1. WordPlay
Penny McKinlay, Communications Consultant

2. Run-On Words

4. in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it’s
spring
(e. e. cummings)

5. Personification

7. “In June
the tomato
cuts loose,
invades
the kitchens,
Unfortunately, we have to
assassinate it:
the knife
plunges
into its living flesh,”
(Pablo Neruda)

8. Oxymoron
open
secretdeafening silence
alone together
seriously funny

10. Allusion

12. Lucky Peach http://lky.ph/post/122589776729

14. Inversion

17. Alliteration

19. A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
Said the flea, "Let us fly!"
Said the fly, "Let us flee!"
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/word_play

20. Fill in the Blanks

22. 1 H0P3 7H47 Y0U C4N R34D 7H15.
1'M PR377Y 5UR3 Y0U C4N.
17'5 7R1CKY, 4ND 1'M W0ND3R1NG
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Kenn Nesbitt’s Poetry4kids http://www.poetry4kids.com/poem-729.html#.Vmbibr_amKI

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Penny McKinlay
Communications Consultant