I believe the correct answer is hyperbole.
Hyperbole is a rhetorical figure of speech which show some kind of exaggeration - in this particular example, the hyperbole is found in the words 'an hundred years.' This is so because the poet won't really spend a hundred years to praise the woman's eyes, but is rather exaggerating a bit.
Answer:
Rainsford had refused to play the game.
Explanation:
I checked the phrasal meanings of all these three words. Closely related meaning to the short truth is just THEME.
The answer is D: allusion
The poetic technique illustrated throughout the entire poem "Happiness Epidemic" is <em>allusion</em> , which is the figure of speech the authors use to make a brief reference to a place, person, idea or event in order to make association from these sources. It is a reference to something or someone outside the text. <em>The author mentions health/medical issues: Epidemic, disease, syntoms, clinically, major organs, virus etc to describe happiness and its effects.</em>
