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Identify the literary device used in the following statement:
I am not young enough to know everything.

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Analogy
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Satire
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Paean
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Pastoral
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Solution

The correct option is B Satire
Satire is a literary device that uses humor, exaggeration, irony or ridicule to criticize people's stupidity and vices. Here, the given sentence employs sarcasm to make a comment on a general vice. So, option B is the best answer.

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