Silence is a blank space that begs to be filled is a irony simile metaphore or hyperbole

Silence is a blank space that begs to be filled is and example of a metaphor.

A metaphor is a literary technique where one thing is compared to or called another thing that it is not literally. In this example silence is being called something that it isn't actually ... a blank space that begs to be filled.

Irony is when the audience or reader knows something that the characters do not, and shows a difference between reality and appearance, simile is a comparison of two things that uses like or as, and hyperbole is an exaggeration made for effect.