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Question
Which of the given options contains the figure of speech that appears in the following line from Leigh Hunt's poem “The Glove and the Lions’: ‘Ramped and roared the lions’:
Options
'Your eyes are like the diamond bright,'
'Suddenly the black night showed its teeth in a flash of lightning.'
'Rich gifts of raiment or grain or gold?'
'Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.'
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Solution
'Rich gifts of raiment or grain or gold?'
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