Match the figures of speech in List-I with the sentences in List-II.
| List-I (Figures of speech) | List-II (Sentences) |
|---|---|
| (A) Metaphor | (I) For years, my two sisters have fought a peaceful war over the TV remote. |
| (B) Oxymoron | (II) On a hot afternoon, the school library is a cool island of silence. |
| (C) Apostrophe | (III) Dadaji has seen ninety winters, but he still walks to the market every morning. |
| (D) Synecdoche | (IV) Mango season, I will wait for you all year long. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
| List-I | List-II | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Metaphor | (II) On a hot afternoon, the school library is a cool island of silence. | A metaphor says that one thing is another, without “like” or “as”. The library “is a cool island of silence” in the middle of a hot, noisy day. |
| (B) Oxymoron | (I) For years, my two sisters have fought a peaceful war over the TV remote. | An oxymoron puts two opposite words side by side. “Peaceful” and “war” are opposites in “a peaceful war”. |
| (C) Apostrophe | (IV) Mango season, I will wait for you all year long. | 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 “Mango season” and calls it “you”. |
| (D) Synecdoche | (III) Dadaji has seen ninety winters, but he still walks to the market every morning. | In synecdoche, a part stands for the whole. A winter is one part of a year, but “ninety winters” stands for ninety whole years. |