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Select the figures of speech used in the given lines.

Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race,

Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours

(A) personification, alliteration

(B) personification, simile

(C) antithesis, pun

(D) personification, metaphor

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 1

Time is addressed and given human qualities such as envy and running a race, which is personification and also a metaphor of the race. 'Lazy leaden-stepping' repeats the initial l sound, giving alliteration. So (A) and (D) both apply.

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