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From the given options select the figure of speech or the poetic device used in experssion.

"Both wry with the laboured ease of loss"

Solution

Correct Option: 3

'Laboured ease' is a contradiction in terms: labour implies effort while ease implies effortlessness. Placing two opposing ideas together is the defining feature of oxymoron. There is no comparison (simile/metaphor) or human quality given to an object (personification).

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