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?

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.