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

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

List-I (Sentences)	List-II (Figures of speech)
(A) Kabir learnt that he had to lose the argument with his little sister to win her back.	(I) Transferred epithet
(B) Every share broker in Mumbai waited anxiously to see how Dalal Street would take the new budget.	(II) Paradox
(C) Shalini answered her father’s question with a loud whisper that the whole dining table heard.	(III) Metonymy
(D) Grandfather sipped his tea in silence through a long, worried morning before his surgery.	(IV) Oxymoron

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

List-I	List-II	Explanation
(A) Kabir learnt that he had to lose the argument with his little sister to win her back.	(II) Paradox	A paradox is a statement that seems to go against itself but still holds a truth. Losing sounds like the opposite of winning back. Yet by giving up the argument, Kabir gets his sister’s love again.
(B) Every share broker in Mumbai waited anxiously to see how Dalal Street would take the new budget.	(III) Metonymy	Metonymy uses the name of one thing for something closely linked to it. Dalal Street is the Mumbai street where the stock exchange stands, so “Dalal Street” stands for the share market.
(C) Shalini answered her father’s question with a loud whisper that the whole dining table heard.	(IV) Oxymoron	An oxymoron puts two opposite words side by side. A whisper is soft, so “loud” and “whisper” are opposites.
(D) Grandfather sipped his tea in silence through a long, worried morning before his surgery.	(I) Transferred epithet	In a transferred epithet, a describing word is moved from a person to a thing linked to them. A morning cannot worry. It is Grandfather who is worried, but the word is put on the morning.

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

List-I (Sentences)	List-II (Figures of speech)
(A) Kabir learnt that he had to lose the argument with his little sister to win her back.	(I) Transferred epithet
(B) Every share broker in Mumbai waited anxiously to see how Dalal Street would take the new budget.	(II) Paradox
(C) Shalini answered her father’s question with a loud whisper that the whole dining table heard.	(III) Metonymy
(D) Grandfather sipped his tea in silence through a long, worried morning before his surgery.	(IV) Oxymoron

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

List-I	List-II	Explanation
(A) Kabir learnt that he had to lose the argument with his little sister to win her back.	(II) Paradox	A paradox is a statement that seems to go against itself but still holds a truth. Losing sounds like the opposite of winning back. Yet by giving up the argument, Kabir gets his sister’s love again.
(B) Every share broker in Mumbai waited anxiously to see how Dalal Street would take the new budget.	(III) Metonymy	Metonymy uses the name of one thing for something closely linked to it. Dalal Street is the Mumbai street where the stock exchange stands, so “Dalal Street” stands for the share market.
(C) Shalini answered her father’s question with a loud whisper that the whole dining table heard.	(IV) Oxymoron	An oxymoron puts two opposite words side by side. A whisper is soft, so “loud” and “whisper” are opposites.
(D) Grandfather sipped his tea in silence through a long, worried morning before his surgery.	(I) Transferred epithet	In a transferred epithet, a describing word is moved from a person to a thing linked to them. A morning cannot worry. It is Grandfather who is worried, but the word is put on the morning.