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Identify the most appropriate figure of speech used in the given phrase:

'Little sorrows sit and weep'

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 4

Sorrows are abstract feelings, yet here they sit and weep, which are human actions. Giving human behaviour to something non-human is personification. There is no exaggeration, no implied comparison of two unlike things, and no contrast between what is said and what is meant.

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