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'A post-mortem of the paper was being held ...'
Identify the literary device used in the expression.
Answer: D
The literary device is a Metaphor.
A post-mortem is literally a medical examination of a dead body to find out the cause of death. Calling the students' discussion of the finished examination paper a post-mortem compares the two directly, without 'like' or 'as': they are dissecting a paper that is over to see what went right and wrong. A direct, implied comparison is a metaphor.
A simile would make the comparison explicit with 'like' or 'as'. Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration, and parallelism is the repetition of a grammatical structure, neither of which is present here.
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