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Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:
The pen is mightier than the sword.
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The correct option is B Metonymy
Metonymy is a representative word which stands for something else. Option C) Metonymy is correct as pen stands for thoughts and sword stands for war. "The pen is mightier than the sword" is a metonymic adage, coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 which indicates that thinking and writing have more influence on people and events than the use of force or violence.The other options are wrong as litotes, synecdoche, and transferred epithet mean an understatement not to be taken literally, a word which is a term for a part of something but refers the whole of it, and a word which modifies a noun other than a person or a thing it actually describes respectively.
Metonymy is a representative word which stands for something else. Option C) Metonymy is correct as pen stands for thoughts and sword stands for war. "The pen is mightier than the sword" is a metonymic adage, coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 which indicates that thinking and writing have more influence on people and events than the use of force or violence.
The other options are wrong as litotes, synecdoche, and transferred epithet mean an understatement not to be taken literally, a word which is a term for a part of something but refers the whole of it, and a word which modifies a noun other than a person or a thing it actually describes respectively.
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