Analyze and comment on the following.Analyze the following dialogue and comment on the rhetoric use of homonym in italicized font. Customer: "How come your sausages taste like meat at one end, but like bread at the other? " Butcher replied: "M

Analyze and comment on the following.Analyze the following dialogue and comment on the rhetoric use of homonym in italicized font. Customer: "How come your sausages taste like meat at one end, but like bread at the other? " Butcher replied: "Madam, in times like these no butcher can make both ends meet. "

AS HOMONYMS ARE IDENTICAL IN SOUND OR SPELLING, PARTICULARLY HOMOPHONES, THEY ARE OFTEN EMPLOYED TO CREATE PUNS FOR DESIRED EFFECT OF HUMOR, SARCASM OR RIDICULE. 

"MAKING ENDS MEET" IS AN EXPRESSION TO MEAN "TO MANAGE SO THAT ONE'S MEANS ARE SUFFICIENT FOR ONE'S NEEDS."

MEAT AND MEET ARE HOMOPHONES. 

HERE THE BUTCHER CLEVERLY EMPLOYED THE STRUCTURE OF THE IDIOM TO HIS ADVANTAGE TO MAKE AN EXCUSE IN A HUMOROUS WAY IN ORDER TO EVADE THE CUSTOMER'S INQUIRY AND TRY TO COVER THE FACTR THAT HE WAS SELLING UNQUALIFIED SAUSAGES.

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