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Question 8

What figure of speech does the following quotation contain? Life's but a walking shadow (Macbeth)

  • A.A metaphor
  • B.An image
  • C.a synecdoche
  • D.An allusion
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Exam body
OAU
Subject
Literature-In-English
Year
2009/2010
Question no.
#8
Type
Objective
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