Match the sentences in List-I with the figures of speech in List-II.
| List-I (Sentences) | List-II (Figures of speech) |
|---|---|
| (A) On the last evening of the mela, the giant wheel stood sadly in the rain, waiting for riders who never came. | (I) Epigram |
| (B) Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change the water in the office cooler. | (II) Allusion |
| (C) Ma has drawn a Lakshman rekha around my phone: not a single minute after ten at night. | (III) Oxymoron |
| (D) Ever since the quarrel over the family land, the two brothers have kept up a friendly hostility at every function. | (IV) Personification |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
| List-I | List-II | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| (A) On the last evening of the mela, the giant wheel stood sadly in the rain, waiting for riders who never came. | (IV) Personification | Personification gives human qualities or actions to a thing. A giant wheel cannot feel sad or wait for anyone, but here it does both like a person. |
| (B) Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change the water in the office cooler. | (I) Epigram | An epigram is a short, clever saying with a twist. It starts with a grand wish, changing the world, and ends with a small, boring job that nobody will do. |
| (C) Ma has drawn a Lakshman rekha around my phone: not a single minute after ten at night. | (II) Allusion | An allusion is a short reference to a well-known person, story or event. In the Ramayana, Lakshman drew a line that Sita was not to cross. Ma’s rule is a line of the same kind. |
| (D) Ever since the quarrel over the family land, the two brothers have kept up a friendly hostility at every function. | (III) Oxymoron | An oxymoron puts two opposite words side by side. “Friendly” and “hostility” (dislike) are opposites. The brothers smile at each other in public but are still enemies. |