Discussion
In an age of pressurized happiness, we sometimes grow insensitive to subtle joys. The italicised words are an example of
Answer: A
The italicised words are an example of a transferred epithet. The adjective 'pressurized' really describes the age, with its pressure to be happy, but it is attached to the noun 'happiness'.
A simile needs a word of comparison such as 'like', and a metaphor names one thing as another, and the phrase has neither. A hyperbaton is a change of normal word order, which is not found here. So the first option is right. The device is common in English prose, as in 'a sleepless night', where the adjective belongs to the person and is moved to the noun.
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