Question

'They do not lie awake in the dark...' Name the figure of speech.
a. metaphor
b.synechdoche
c. oxymoron
d. Internal rhyme
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Answer 1

'They do not lie awake in the dark. The figure of speech: 'Synecdoche' - that's option B.

What is Synecdoche?

• A synecdoche is a figure of speech used to represent the whole of a subject.
• The given expression has been taken from 'Songs of Myself' by Walt Whitman.
• In this poem, he is comparing animals and humans.
• Humans stay awake in the dark to cry on their wrong deeds while animals sleep carelessly.
• Thus, option B is correct.