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Choose the correct pair of figures of speech for the given sentence:

The silence screamed louder than any voice in the room.

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 4

Silence is given the human/animate action of screaming, which is personification. At the same time, 'silence screamed' joins two contradictory ideas (silence and loud sound), which is an oxymoron. Hence the pair is Personification and Oxymoron. 'Screamed' is not onomatopoeia, and there is no simile or synecdoche in the sentence.

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