Match the figures of speech in List-I with the sentences in List-II.
| List-I (Figures of speech) | List-II (Sentences) |
|---|---|
| (A) Hyperbole | (I) Every evening, the old neem tree in the village square listens quietly to the gossip of the elders. |
| (B) Personification | (II) The new hostel mattress is as hard as a classroom bench. |
| (C) Alliteration | (III) By the end of the summer cricket camp, Arjun had drunk enough nimbu paani to fill a swimming pool. |
| (D) Simile | (IV) Kavita carried a kilo of crisp cucumbers to the kitchen. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
| List-I | List-II | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Hyperbole | (III) By the end of the summer cricket camp, Arjun had drunk enough nimbu paani to fill a swimming pool. | Hyperbole is a big exaggeration made for effect. Nobody can drink that much. The speaker only means that Arjun drank a lot because of the heat. |
| (B) Personification | (I) Every evening, the old neem tree in the village square listens quietly to the gossip of the elders. | Personification gives human qualities or actions to a thing. A tree cannot listen to gossip, but here the neem tree listens like a quiet old person. |
| (C) Alliteration | (IV) Kavita carried a kilo of crisp cucumbers to the kitchen. | Alliteration is the same first sound repeated in words that are close together. The “k” sound comes again and again in “Kavita carried a kilo of crisp cucumbers” and “kitchen”. |
| (D) Simile | (II) The new hostel mattress is as hard as a classroom bench. | A simile compares two different things using “like” or “as”. The mattress is compared to a classroom bench with “as hard as”. |