What literary device am I using if I say: "Are you driving the car, or is the car driving you?"?

Question

I don't believe it's quite the same as the Russian reversal - the Yakhov Smirnoff thing.

Answer 1

I'd say sarcastic personification, depending on your tone.  To personify, means you attribute human qualities of life to an inanimate object.

It could also be a rhetorical question> meaning you're not expecting an answer.  But rather, you're posing a question as a statement.

It could also be called >>Hyperbole, the counterpart of understatement, deliberately exaggerates conditions for emphasis or effect.

I think about this when people are out walking the dog > or is the dog walking them?.

Answer 2

It's a hypothetical question.

Answer 3

personification

Answer 4

It's called "antithesis".

Answer 5

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