Read the following sentences from "Loyalties." When I returned my father was saying: "Those dirty Biafrans, what did I tell you? As usual it was all talk. When it comes to talk there is nothing they cannot do." The schoolmaster called me. "Boy, if the Biafran soldiers cover twenty miles a day how long will it take them to reach the Cameroons?" The barber held his sides and groaned. "Don't mind them." my father said. My mother called me from the back. "Go and collect our Nigerian goat," she said. Which type of humor does the mother use when speaking to the boy? (1 point) Responses hyperbole hyperbole incongruity incongruity irony irony sarcasm
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The mother uses sarcasm when speaking to the boy.
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