Question

which figure of speech is used in this text? i wondered why the baseball was getting bigger, and then suddenly it hit me. personification pun verbal irony

Explanation:

A pun is a play on words that uses a word with multiple meanings or similar - sounding words. In the sentence "I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger, and then suddenly it hit me", the word "hit" has two meanings: one is the physical action of the baseball hitting the person, and the other is the figurative meaning of the realization (as in "an idea hit me"). Personification is giving human - like qualities to non - human things, and there's no personification here. Verbal irony is when someone says the opposite of what they mean, which is not the case here. So the figure of speech is a pun.

Answer:

B. pun