The word 'merit' in the sentence 'The boy showed his merit by making twenty mistakes in ten minutes' is an example of

Pun (শ্লেষালঙ্কার/দ্ব্যর্থক শব্দ প্রয়োগ):

A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. A pun is a joke that makes a play on words. A pun, also called paronomasia, uses words that have several meanings or words that sound similar but have different meanings.

সাহিত্যে Pun এর উদাহরণ:

• A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.The
• flock of doves decided to stage a coo.
• Peacocks are meticulous because they show attention to de tail.
• The duck said to the bartender, ‘put it on my bill.’
• When a vulture flies, he takes carrion luggage.
• Energizer Bunny arrested charged with battery.