Rebus is a puzzle that combines letters, words, and pictures to convey a phrase or sentence. It can help engage children in reading and is used in children’s books and pastime books. Rebus puzzles focus on the sound of the word rather than the spelling. Rebus relations convey meaning by the way words are arranged on the page. Rebus is used for entertainment and has common ground with texting language.
A rebus can be a method to help engage young children in the act of reading, as well as two types of puzzles in which letters, words, and pictures are combined to convey a phrase or sentence. A rebus is a variation on a pun. In a pun, the sound and/or meaning of two words is transformed into a pun. In a rebus, the pun is created by using images to evoke a sound that is identical or similar to a word or part of a word.
The Rebus in reading. The rebus offers a way for children to help read a story before they can decipher the print. In this type of story, the word is replaced with a picture of, say, an apple, a cat or a bird – a simple object that the child can identify and name – so that the child can “read” that part of the story. .
Rebus equations. Often found in children’s pastime books and puzzles, a form of rebus appears in an equation form. In this type of rebus, you will find examples like: F + (picture of an ear) =. Add the characteristic sound of the letter F to the sound of the word ear to make the word scary.
Note that this type of rebus focuses on the sound of the word, rather than the spelling. So if you saw F + (image of an eye) =, you would have to pick up fie, not feye, which is not an English word. Benjamin Franklin used this type of writing, without the plus and minus signs, in his short article “The Art of Making Money Plenty in Every Man’s Pocket.
In rebus puzzles, it is common to find
8 for eaten or a syllable with that sound
4 for for, and
2 for or too much.
Thus, you can have:
gr + 8 = excellent
4 + T = strong
2 + L = tool
To this extent, the rebus has common ground with the texting language, also known as txt or txtspk, but while the texting language uses these devices to save space when communicating, for example on mobile phones, the rebus uses them to the entertainment.
Other popular rebus pictures include:
a bee for the sound /be/
a handsaw for the sound /saw/
a knot in a string for the sound /not/
a sheep for the sound /sheep/
an open can of food for the sound /can/
R for the sound /are/
Rebus relations. In addition to puzzles, there are rebuses that convey meaning by the way words are arranged on the page.
TESTA
HEELS
shows the phrase “head over heels”.
SAILING
CCCCCCC
means “to sail the seven seas”.
This is one way rebuses are enjoyed after childhood has passed.
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