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train and a teacher trains a mind.”
The example exploits polysemantic words ‘
mind’ 
and
‘train’
. In the expression 
‘conductor minds the train’
meaning of the verb mind is ‘paying attention or taking care 
about passengers and collect tickets’ and the noun 
‘train’
conveys the meaning of 
‘machine’. In the second expression 
‘a teacher trains a mind
’ the noun ‘
mind’
expresses 
‘the human brain’ while the verb 
‘train’
denotes ‘teaching’.
“A happy life depends on a liver” 
In the example the word ‘
liver
’ can refer to ‘the organ liver’ or simply ‘the person who 
lives’. 
1.“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” 
2.“Killing time with a book was not much better than killing pheasants and time with a 
gun.” 
Function of Pun. Apart from being witty and humorous, puns add profound 
meanings to texts and shape the way in which the text is interpreted by the readers. By 
playing with the words, the writers reveal their cleverness and the cleverness of their 
characters. Besides, puns in a literary works act as a source of comic relief or an intentional 
effort on the part of the writer to show his/her creative ability in using language. 

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Epithet
originally comes from Greek word 
epitheton
which means ‘attributed, 
added’. Epithet is a word (a group of words) carrying an expressive (emotive) 
characterization of an object described. 
“
Full many a glorious morning have I seen...”(
William Shakespeare) 
The epithet is based on the interplay of emotive and logical meaning in an attributive 
word, phrase or even sentence, used to characterize an object and pointing out to the reader 
some of the properties or features of the object with the aim of giving an individual 
perception and evaluation of these features or properties. Epithet is markedly subjective 
and evaluative, but logical attribute is objective non-evaluative. 
Epithets are classified according to their structure and semantics. From the point of 
view of their compositional structure epithets may be divided into:
1)
Simple.