Question

What type of figure of speech is a pun? A.alliteration
B. repetition C. hyperbole D.irony

Answer 1

irony..........................

Answer 2

Pun is type of irony.

Pun refers to wordplay which involves more than one meaning which creates the rhetorical or humorous effect. It requires large vocabulary to be understood. Similarly irony is an expression which is opposite in its meaning and creates the emphatic and humorous effect.