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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night
Read the extract below and answer the question

I have said too much unto a heart of stone,
And laid my honour too unchary on 't;
There's something in me that reproves my fault,
But such a headstrong potent fault it is
That it but mocks reproof.
(Acts iii, Scene 4)

The figure of speech used in '' a heart of stone'' is
A
hyperbole
B
metonymy
C
paradox
D
metaphor
correct option: d
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