Literary Devices

Medium

Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence from the given options:

'The terror of the situation was a blessing in disguise.'

Antithesis

Apostrophe

Epigram

Euphemism

✅ Correct Option: 3

The sentence is a short, pointed statement that looks self-contradictory: terror, something dreadful, is called a blessing. A brief, witty remark whose apparent contradiction conceals a truth is an epigram. It is not apostrophe (no address to an absent entity) or euphemism (no softening of harsh words), and it lacks the balanced parallel clauses of antithesis.

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Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence from the given options: 'The terror of the situation was a blessing in disguise.'

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Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence from the given options:

'The terror of the situation was a blessing in disguise.'