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Which of the following is a rhetorical figure?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which of the following is a rhetorical figure?

  1. Eclogue
  2. Pentameter
  3. Sestina
  4. Metaphor
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Correct answer: D. Metaphor

1. Metaphor is a trope substituting one image for another. 2. Pentameter is a metrical line, sestina is a verse form, eclogue is a pastoral genre. 3. The brief names 'rhetorical figures' as a content area. _Source: Coverage brief — Literary History bucket — "prosody, rhetorical figures"_

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