phonogram in linguistics
No matter it is a homophone (phonogram) or a polysemous word, the point of the speaker is not the "similarity" but the equivocality.
The rhetorical device-pun intentionally uses homophone (phonogram) and polysemous words which can possible generate equivocality in order to punningly express what the speaker is really driving at.
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