Silence is a blank space that begs to be filled is and example of a metaphor.
A metaphor is a literary technique where one thing is compared to or called another thing that it is not literally. In this example silence is being called something that it isn't actually...a blank space that begs to be filled.
Irony is when the audience or reader knows something that the characters do not, and shows a difference between reality and appearance, simile is a comparison of two things that uses like or as, and hyperbole is an exaggeration made for effect.
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Answer: D. True happiness is a lie without love.
Even though the Alchemist talks about the dreams and to to what it takes to follow them, The alchemist is also referring to Love as something important. In fact, according to the alchemist, without love in our lifes we are incomplete.