Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:
After surviving the war, the soldier died in a car accident.
Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:
After surviving the war, the soldier died in a car accident.
Solution
✅ Correct Option: 1
Surviving a war only to die in an ordinary car accident reverses expectation, which is situational irony. There is no wordplay for a pun, no part standing for a whole as in synecdoche, and no redundant phrasing as in pleonasm.
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