At the end of the story "the gun" by philip k. d, the space travelers leave the planet planning to return in the future. as their ship flies off, the automated destructive weapon they disabled begins to repair itself, unbeknownst to these space travelers. this event is most clearly an occurrence of what figurative device? cosmic irony dramatic irony euphemism hyperbole

B) Dramatic irony.

Explanation: an irony is a state of affairs or an event that seems contrary to what one expects and it often has an amusing result. A dramatic irony is when the audience is aware of something that the characters of the story ignore. In the given excerpt we can see a clear example of a dramatic irony, because the audience is aware of the destructive weapon repairing itself, while the space travelers (the characters) don't know it.

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