In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Ebeneezer Scrooge sees the ghost of Jacob Marely. He refuses to believe that he is seeing a ghost. He explains it by saying:
"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"
The words in bold face and black type are an example of:
a. Situational Irony
b. Allusion
c. Metaphor
d. Pun
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d. is correct since he is making a play on grave (serious) and gravy (yum!)
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