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Romanticism and the Development of Nationalist Sentiment

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Identify the figure of speech in the sentence.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

A

Personification

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Apostrophe

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C

Metonymy

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D

Hyperbole

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Solution

The correct option is D
Hyperbole

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Hyperbole - The sentence is an exaggeration.

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