Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:

All I could hear was the drip, drip, drip of the faulty tap.

Antithesis

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Onomatopoeia

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Exclamation

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Solution

The correct option is A Onomatopoeia
A figure of speech is a phrase or a word used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.Option B) Onomatopoeia is correct as drip imitates the sound of a tap. The other options are wrong as no other figure of speech is used in the sentence.The correct answer is B)Onomatopoeia.

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