5. Find three example of Ferlinghetti's inventiveness with language (puns, compound words, etc.) and describe the effects of each.

Performing entrechats and sleight-of-foot tricks is a pun this is because the high wire actor goes down the wire foot by foot and the writer will write poetry foot by foot.

Spreadeagled this is a compound since the writer took the two separate words and combined them together.

A little charleychaplin is another compound word this is because it combines his whole name into one word which is showing or giving characteristics to the character.