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Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:

The silence screamed accusation.

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 3

Silence, by definition, cannot scream; placing the two contradictory ideas together creates an oxymoron. It is not hyperbole (exaggeration of degree), litotes (understatement through negation), or a straightforward metaphor, since the effect rests on the self-contradiction between 'silence' and 'screamed'.

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