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) No advice is given away more freely than the advice its giver has never followed. |
| (B) Euphemism | (II) When the winter crowds returned, the tea-stall owner smiled and said that business was brewing nicely again. |
| (C) Epigram | (III) The queue outside the passport office was so long that I aged a decade before I reached the counter. |
| (D) Pun | (IV) After the factory shut down, Mr Iyer told the neighbours that he was between jobs for a while. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
| List-I | List-II | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Hyperbole | (III) The queue outside the passport office was so long that I aged a decade before I reached the counter. | Hyperbole is a big exaggeration made for effect. Nobody grows ten years older in one queue. The speaker only means that the wait was very long. |
| (B) Euphemism | (IV) After the factory shut down, Mr Iyer told the neighbours that he was between jobs for a while. | A euphemism is a soft, polite way of saying something unpleasant. “Between jobs” is a gentle way of saying that Mr Iyer has lost his job. |
| (C) Epigram | (I) No advice is given away more freely than the advice its giver has never followed. | An epigram is a short, clever saying with a twist. People hand out advice easily, and the twist is that the advice given most freely is the advice the giver never follows. |
| (D) Pun | (II) When the winter crowds returned, the tea-stall owner smiled and said that business was brewing nicely again. | A pun is a play on a word that has two meanings. “Brewing” means making tea and also growing or building up. Both meanings work for a tea-stall whose business is picking up. |