A visual pun is a pun involving an image or images, often based on a rebus.
A gable stone in the village of Batenburg, Netherlands depicting a visual pun: Batenburg (Dutch for "profit castle") is shown as a castle turning silver coins into more valuable gold coins, thus creating profit.
All is Vanity (1892) by C. Allan Gilbert (the table is a vanity)
A lamppost (foreground) and Toronto's CN Tower (in distance)
A computer mouse caught in a mousetrap typically used for live mice
A pun, also rarely known as paronomasia, 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. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or figurative language. A pun differs from a malapropism in that a malapropism is an incorrect variation on a correct expression, while a pun involves expressions with multiple interpretations. Puns may be regarded as in-jokes or idiomatic constructions, especially as their usage and meaning are usually specific to a particular language or its culture.
A black Jeep Wrangler with license plate BAABAAA – a pun on "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep"
The Tiecoon Tie shop, in Penn Station NY, an example of a pun in a shop name
