Jack Prelutsky’s poem, Is Traffic Jam Delectable?, a high-level comedy through the clever wordplay and witty style, uses comedic language to convey the idea of how confusing and amusing the English language can be. First off, to stress the craziness of English, Prelutsky phrases all of his poetic lines in a way which the denotation and connotation can easily be mistaken for one another, giving the poem several different meanings. For example, two alike readers might completely interpret Prelutsky’s line, “do carpets nap in flower beds,” (Prelutsky, Is Traffic Jam Delectable?) in two entirely different ways, one referring to nap as the cloth woven into the carpet and the other picturing the idea of carpet sleeping in a flower bed, which also
