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From the given options, select the figure of speech (Poetic Device) used in the expression.

"The smiling young trees provided a strange comfort"

Solution

Correct Option: 1

Trees do not literally smile. Giving a human quality (smiling) to non-human objects (trees) is personification. There is no 'like' or 'as' for a simile, no direct comparison for a metaphor, and no contradiction for oxymoron.

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