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Choose the correct figure of speech used in the following sentence:

Why, man, if the rivers were dry, I am able to fill it with tears.

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 2

Claiming one could fill dry rivers with one's tears is a gross exaggeration used for emphasis, which is hyperbole. No human qualities are given to non-human things (personification), no absent entity is addressed (apostrophe), and there is no witty paradoxical statement (epigram).

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