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

He has many mouths to feed.

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 1

'Mouths' stands for people who must be fed, that is, a part representing the whole person. Using a part for the whole is synecdoche. The option spells it 'Synedoche' but refers to the same device.

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