Question

When giving a speech about recycling, dolores said, “i took a beer bottle to the recycling center, but they wouldn’t take it. they said, ‘this is the pint of no return.’” what humorous verbal strategy did dolores engage in?

Answer 1

Dolores engaged in a pun, this is a form of a humorous verbal strategy where the speaker picks words that can be interchanged with its original meaning. Webster describes it as a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.