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The following sentence is an example of ____.


The train made a choo-choo sound as it arrived at the station.

A
Exclamation
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Irony
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C
Onomatopoeia
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Metaphor
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Solution

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

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