Match the sentences in List-I with the figures of speech in List-II.L…

Match the sentences in List-I with the figures of speech in List-II.

List-I (Sentences)	List-II (Figures of speech)
(A) During the spin cycle, our new washing machine danced across the bathroom floor.	(I) Metaphor
(B) Small window of my first rented room, I will miss you and your view of the neem tree.	(II) Hyperbole
(C) In exam week, the hostel common room was a railway waiting room of tired faces and cold tea.	(III) Personification
(D) Bittu Chacha has been telling the same joke since the time of the dinosaurs.	(IV) Apostrophe

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 4

The correct answer is Option (4) → (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

List-I	List-II	Explanation
(A) During the spin cycle, our new washing machine danced across the bathroom floor.	(III) Personification	Personification gives human qualities or actions to a thing. A washing machine cannot dance, but here it “danced” like a person.
(B) Small window of my first rented room, I will miss you and your view of the neem tree.	(IV) 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 to the window and calls it “you”.
(C) In exam week, the hostel common room was a railway waiting room of tired faces and cold tea.	(I) Metaphor	A metaphor says that one thing is another, without “like” or “as”. The common room “was a railway waiting room”, full of tired people sitting and waiting.
(D) Bittu Chacha has been telling the same joke since the time of the dinosaurs.	(II) Hyperbole	Hyperbole is a big exaggeration made for effect. Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. Chacha has only told the joke for a very long time.

Match the sentences in List-I with the figures of speech in List-II.

List-I (Sentences)	List-II (Figures of speech)
(A) During the spin cycle, our new washing machine danced across the bathroom floor.	(I) Metaphor
(B) Small window of my first rented room, I will miss you and your view of the neem tree.	(II) Hyperbole
(C) In exam week, the hostel common room was a railway waiting room of tired faces and cold tea.	(III) Personification
(D) Bittu Chacha has been telling the same joke since the time of the dinosaurs.	(IV) Apostrophe

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 4

The correct answer is Option (4) → (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

List-I	List-II	Explanation
(A) During the spin cycle, our new washing machine danced across the bathroom floor.	(III) Personification	Personification gives human qualities or actions to a thing. A washing machine cannot dance, but here it “danced” like a person.
(B) Small window of my first rented room, I will miss you and your view of the neem tree.	(IV) 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 to the window and calls it “you”.
(C) In exam week, the hostel common room was a railway waiting room of tired faces and cold tea.	(I) Metaphor	A metaphor says that one thing is another, without “like” or “as”. The common room “was a railway waiting room”, full of tired people sitting and waiting.
(D) Bittu Chacha has been telling the same joke since the time of the dinosaurs.	(II) Hyperbole	Hyperbole is a big exaggeration made for effect. Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. Chacha has only told the joke for a very long time.