Choose the sentence that is an example of the figure of speech apostrophe:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Faithful old tractor, pull us through one more harvest before you finally retire.
Apostrophe:
- In an apostrophe, the speaker talks directly to a thing, an idea or an absent person, as if it can hear.
- The speaker talks straight to the tractor: “Faithful old tractor, pull us through”. A tractor cannot hear, but the farmer speaks to it like an old friend.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: All afternoon the angry sun glared down at the long queue outside the ration shop. — Incorrect. This sentence uses personification, which gives human qualities or actions to a thing. The sun is called “angry” and it “glared” like a person.
Option 3: Who can sleep when the neighbours play the dhol till two in the morning? — Incorrect. This sentence is a rhetorical question, a question asked for effect, not for an answer. “Who can sleep” only means that nobody can sleep in such noise.
Option 4: After the power cut, the exam hall was as quiet as a library at midnight. — Incorrect. This sentence uses a simile, which compares two different things using “like” or “as”. The words “as quiet as a library” compare the hall to a library.