Correct Answer - Option 4 : Antithesis
The correct answer is Antithesis
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Silence is sometimes more eloquent than speech is a famous saying in English which is a classic example of Antithesis
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Antithesis: Juxtaposition of two words, phrases, clauses, or sentences contrasted or opposed in meaning in such a way as to give emphasis to contrasting ideas.
- Since the given sentence expresses a contrasting idea; hence it will be an example of Antithesis
- One might choose the oxymoron as the correct answer
- An oxymoron is a phrase that uses two contradictory or opposing terms
- For e.g.- The rising moon over the city dump presented a beautifully ugly scene.
- If silence and speech come together in the context then it said to be Oxymoron.
Let's look at the meaning of the other given options-
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Personification- is a figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human
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Bathos- is the act of a writer or a poet falling into inconsequential and absurd metaphors, descriptions, or ideas
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Oxymoron- Containing words that seem to contradict each other.
