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Choose the sentences that are correct examples of Hyperbole and Oxymoron:

A. The smell of burnt food will not clear out even if we spray all the perfumes from Arabia.

B. There was a defeaning silence in the auditorium.

C. The stage was filled with talented faces.

D. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 1

Sentence A is a hyperbole: an exaggeration that even all the perfumes from Arabia cannot clear the smell. Sentence B is an oxymoron: 'deafening silence' pairs contradictory ideas. C is a synecdoche/metonymy ('talented faces' for people) and D is a chiasmus/antimetabole. Hence A and B.

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