GCEEnglish LanguageIdioms and Figures of Speech2022

In the line 'Death, thou shalt die', the figure of speech employed is

AOxymoron
BParadox
CApostropheCORRECT
DAntithesis
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Why the answer is C, and why the others tempt you.
Apostrophe is a figure of speech in which the speaker directly addresses an absent person, a dead person, or an abstract idea as though it were present and capable of understanding. Here, Death is addressed directly as 'thou'. While the line also contains a paradox, the primary device of directly addressing Death is apostrophe.
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