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Question
Choose the correct Figure of speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.
Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon.
Options
Exclamation
Personification
Antithesis
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Solution
Antithesis: the use of opposite words. old and young, in the same line.
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