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From the given options, select the figure of speech (poetic device) used in the expression:

Of all the thousand selfish cars that pass

(1) Personification

(2) Simile

(3) Oxymoron

(4) Pun

Solution

Correct Option: 1

The expression Of all the thousand selfish cars that pass attributes the human quality selfish to cars, which are inanimate. Assigning human qualities to non-human objects is Personification.

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