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.
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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