Match the figures of speech in List-I with the sentences in List-II.
| List-I (Figures of speech) | List-II (Sentences) |
|---|---|
| (A) Synecdoche | (I) The company has decided to let two hundred workers go this year. |
| (B) Transferred epithet | (II) Arjun saved his salary for two years to buy his first set of wheels. |
| (C) Euphemism | (III) We went to the mela with full pockets and came home with empty ones. |
| (D) Antithesis | (IV) After the interview, Neha took the long, anxious bus ride home. |
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) Synecdoche | (II) Arjun saved his salary for two years to buy his first set of wheels. | In a synecdoche, a part stands for the whole. Here “wheels” stands for the whole vehicle, such as a car or a scooter. |
| (B) Transferred epithet | (IV) After the interview, Neha took the long, anxious bus ride home. | In a transferred epithet, a describing word is moved from the person to a thing near them. A bus ride cannot feel anxious. Neha is the one who is anxious. |
| (C) Euphemism | (I) The company has decided to let two hundred workers go this year. | A euphemism is a soft, polite way of saying something unpleasant. “Let two hundred workers go” is a gentle way of saying the company will sack them. |
| (D) Antithesis | (III) We went to the mela with full pockets and came home with empty ones. | In an antithesis, two opposite ideas are placed side by side in a balanced way. “Full pockets” is set against “empty ones”. |