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

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

List-I (Figures of speech)	List-II (Sentences)
(A) Antithesis	(I) Mrs Kapoor’s balcony is the news channel of our lane.
(B) Apostrophe	(II) Dear old cycle, I am sorry I sold you to the scrap dealer for eight hundred rupees.
(C) Simile	(III) In the monsoon, our lane floods in minutes and dries in days.
(D) Metaphor	(IV) The tiny letters on the medicine strip looked like a line of ants to Dadaji.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

List-I	List-II	Explanation
(A) Antithesis	(III) In the monsoon, our lane floods in minutes and dries in days.	In antithesis, two opposite ideas are placed side by side in a balanced way. “Floods in minutes” is set against “dries in days”: fast against slow, wet against dry.
(B) Apostrophe	(II) Dear old cycle, I am sorry I sold you to the scrap dealer for eight hundred rupees.	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 cycle: “Dear old cycle” and “I sold you”.
(C) Simile	(IV) The tiny letters on the medicine strip looked like a line of ants to Dadaji.	A simile compares two different things using “like” or “as”. The small black letters are compared to “a line of ants” with “like”.
(D) Metaphor	(I) Mrs Kapoor’s balcony is the news channel of our lane.	A metaphor says that one thing is another, without “like” or “as”. The balcony “is the news channel”, the place from where all the news of the lane spreads.

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

List-I (Figures of speech)	List-II (Sentences)
(A) Antithesis	(I) Mrs Kapoor’s balcony is the news channel of our lane.
(B) Apostrophe	(II) Dear old cycle, I am sorry I sold you to the scrap dealer for eight hundred rupees.
(C) Simile	(III) In the monsoon, our lane floods in minutes and dries in days.
(D) Metaphor	(IV) The tiny letters on the medicine strip looked like a line of ants to Dadaji.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

List-I	List-II	Explanation
(A) Antithesis	(III) In the monsoon, our lane floods in minutes and dries in days.	In antithesis, two opposite ideas are placed side by side in a balanced way. “Floods in minutes” is set against “dries in days”: fast against slow, wet against dry.
(B) Apostrophe	(II) Dear old cycle, I am sorry I sold you to the scrap dealer for eight hundred rupees.	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 cycle: “Dear old cycle” and “I sold you”.
(C) Simile	(IV) The tiny letters on the medicine strip looked like a line of ants to Dadaji.	A simile compares two different things using “like” or “as”. The small black letters are compared to “a line of ants” with “like”.
(D) Metaphor	(I) Mrs Kapoor’s balcony is the news channel of our lane.	A metaphor says that one thing is another, without “like” or “as”. The balcony “is the news channel”, the place from where all the news of the lane spreads.