Match the figures of speech in List-I with the sentences in List-II.
| List-I (Figures of speech) | List-II (Sentences) |
|---|---|
| (A) Irony | (I) Rakesh dreamed of climbing Everest, crossing the Sahara and sailing round the world, but settled for a trip to the nearby mall. |
| (B) Hyperbole | (II) The spelling bee champion of our school misspelt her own name on the prize form. |
| (C) Anticlimax | (III) The surest way to make a phone call last an hour is to say that it will take only a minute. |
| (D) Epigram | (IV) This week’s maths homework will take me a lifetime to finish. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
| List-I | List-II | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Irony | (II) The spelling bee champion of our school misspelt her own name on the prize form. | In irony, the opposite of what we expect happens. A spelling champion is the last person we expect to misspell her own name. |
| (B) Hyperbole | (IV) This week’s maths homework will take me a lifetime to finish. | Hyperbole is a big exaggeration made for effect. One week’s homework cannot take “a lifetime”. It only means there is a lot of it. |
| (C) Anticlimax | (I) Rakesh dreamed of climbing Everest, crossing the Sahara and sailing round the world, but settled for a trip to the nearby mall. | In an anticlimax, ideas rise in importance and then suddenly drop to something small or silly. Big dreams of Everest, the Sahara and the world drop to “a trip to the nearby mall”. |
| (D) Epigram | (III) The surest way to make a phone call last an hour is to say that it will take only a minute. | An epigram is a short, clever saying with a twist. A call that is “only a minute” should be short. The twist is that saying so makes it run on and on. |