what type of humorous device does Pope use in The (R ape) of the Lock?

caricature

burlesque

sarcasm

reductio ad absurdum

The answer is that the Pope used the reductio ad absurdum or mock-epic genre to weave humor into the poem, The R ape of the Lock.

The mock-epic genre resembles the epic in that its central concerns are serious and often moral. Although it is the idea of its style, it deviates from the epic in the fact that the approach must now be satirical rather than earnest is symptomatic of how far the culture has fallen.