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FIGURES OF SPEECH EXERCISE
Bakim chand chattergi was born on 26 June 1838
Book – Anand Math
Publise -1882
Exercise -1
Directions: Chose the correct figure of speech from the alternatives given below :
Q 1. Truth sits upon the lips of dying man .
(A) Apostrophe (B) Personification
(C) Onomatopoeia (D) Alliteration
Q.2. She shall be sportive as the fawn.
(A) Simile (B) Metaphor
(C) Hyperbole (D) Antithesis
Q.3. The News you bring is a dagger to my heart.
(A) Metaphor (B) Simile
(C) Oxymoron (D) Antithesis
Q.4. She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream.
(A) Metaphor (B) Simile
(C) Oxymoron (D) Personification
Q.5. Life is but a walking shadow.
(A) Metaphor (B) Simile
(C) Apostrophe (D) Antithesis
Q.6. Love is blind.
(A) Metaphor (B) Simile
(C) Personification (D) Antithesis
Q.7. The wish is father to the thought.
(A) Metaphor (B) Simile
(C) Oxymoron (D) Antithesis
Q.8. So like a shattered column lay the king.
(A) Metaphor (B) Simile
(C) Oxymoron (D) Personification
Q.9. Authority forgets a dying king.
(A) Metaphor (B) Personification
(C) Oxymoron (D) Antithesis
Q.10. The night is dark as a black stone.
(A) Metaphor (B) Personification
(C) Simile (D) Antithesis
Q.11.The City’s voice itself is soft like solitude’s.
(A) Metaphor (B) Personification
(C) Oxymoron (D) Simile
Q.12. Om is a tiger in the game.
(A) Metaphor (B) Personification
(C) Simile (D) Antithesis
Q.13. A lie has no legs.
(A) Metaphor (B) Personification
(C) Oxymoron (D) Antithesis
Answer –
1. (B) Personification 2. (A) Simile 3. (A) Metaphor
4. (B) Simile 5. (A) Metaphor 6. (C) Personification
7. (A) Metaphor 8. (B) Simile 9. (B) Personification
10. (C) Simile 11 (D) Simile 12. (A) Metaphor
13. (B) Personification