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Select the Figure of Speech in the following sentence from options given below:

O death! Where is thy sting?

Solution

Correct Option: 3

The speaker addresses death, an abstract idea, as if it were present and could respond. Directly addressing an absent person or abstraction in this way is the figure of speech called apostrophe.

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