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) Personification	(I) The new Lost and Found box in our school went missing in its very first week.
(B) Oxymoron	(II) The hospital phoned at dawn to say that old Mr Iyer had slipped away peacefully in his sleep.
(C) Euphemism	(III) The cracked mirror in the hostel bathroom laughed at my new haircut.
(D) Irony	(IV) For Tanya, the summer holidays were six weeks of busy idleness with her phone and the sofa.

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)-(II), (D)-(I)

List-I	List-II	Explanation
(A) Personification	(III) The cracked mirror in the hostel bathroom laughed at my new haircut.	Personification gives human qualities or actions to a thing, an animal or an idea. A mirror cannot laugh, but here it “laughed” like a person.
(B) Oxymoron	(IV) For Tanya, the summer holidays were six weeks of busy idleness with her phone and the sofa.	An oxymoron puts two opposite words side by side. “Busy” and “idleness” are opposites. Idleness means doing no work.
(C) Euphemism	(II) The hospital phoned at dawn to say that old Mr Iyer had slipped away peacefully in his sleep.	A euphemism is a soft, polite way of saying something unpleasant. “Slipped away” is a gentle way of saying that Mr Iyer died.
(D) Irony	(I) The new Lost and Found box in our school went missing in its very first week.	In irony, the opposite of what we expect happens. A Lost and Found box is meant to keep lost things safe, but the box itself got lost.

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

List-I (Figures of speech)	List-II (Sentences)
(A) Personification	(I) The new Lost and Found box in our school went missing in its very first week.
(B) Oxymoron	(II) The hospital phoned at dawn to say that old Mr Iyer had slipped away peacefully in his sleep.
(C) Euphemism	(III) The cracked mirror in the hostel bathroom laughed at my new haircut.
(D) Irony	(IV) For Tanya, the summer holidays were six weeks of busy idleness with her phone and the sofa.

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)-(II), (D)-(I)

List-I	List-II	Explanation
(A) Personification	(III) The cracked mirror in the hostel bathroom laughed at my new haircut.	Personification gives human qualities or actions to a thing, an animal or an idea. A mirror cannot laugh, but here it “laughed” like a person.
(B) Oxymoron	(IV) For Tanya, the summer holidays were six weeks of busy idleness with her phone and the sofa.	An oxymoron puts two opposite words side by side. “Busy” and “idleness” are opposites. Idleness means doing no work.
(C) Euphemism	(II) The hospital phoned at dawn to say that old Mr Iyer had slipped away peacefully in his sleep.	A euphemism is a soft, polite way of saying something unpleasant. “Slipped away” is a gentle way of saying that Mr Iyer died.
(D) Irony	(I) The new Lost and Found box in our school went missing in its very first week.	In irony, the opposite of what we expect happens. A Lost and Found box is meant to keep lost things safe, but the box itself got lost.