Which figure of speech is used in this text? Now that I'm an adult, I love my job and work hard at it. But whe

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Which figure of speech is used in this text?
Now that I'm an adult, I love my job and work hard at it. But when I was younger, I was a little motivationally challenged. I just couldn't see the payoff that might come from hard work.

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The main figure of speech is a euphemism: "motivationally challenged" is a mild, indirect way to say the speaker lacked motivation or was lazy.

There’s also a metaphor in "couldn't see the payoff" — treating the benefit of hard work as a visible/monetary "payoff."

Which figure of speech is used in this text?
Now that I'm an adult, I love my job and work hard at it. But when I was younger, I was a little motivationally challenged. I just couldn't see the payoff that might come from hard work.

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Which figure of speech is used in this text? Now that I'm an adult, I love my job and work hard at it. But when I was younger, I was a little motivationally challenged. I just couldn't see the payoff that might come from hard work.

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Which figure of speech is used in this text?
Now that I'm an adult, I love my job and work hard at it. But when I was younger, I was a little motivationally challenged. I just couldn't see the payoff that might come from hard work.