Match the sentences in List-I with the sentences in List-II that use…

Match the sentences in List-I with the sentences in List-II that use the same figure of speech.

List-I (Sentences)	List-II (Sentences)
(A) Ishaan spent a jealous afternoon scrolling through his friends’ holiday photos.	(I) Rekha left a safe bank job for the stage, and she has never looked back.
(B) The more Riya revised for the test, the more she realised how little she knew.	(II) The day Meena finally bought an umbrella, it did not rain for the rest of the monsoon.
(C) The school’s new ‘Say No to Plastic’ banner arrived wrapped in three layers of plastic.	(III) Kabir sent his class teacher a nervous email asking for one more day to finish the project.
(D) The press gathered outside the hospital where the injured cricketer was being treated.	(IV) Our music teacher says that the most important notes in any song are the ones that are never played.

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)-(II), (D)-(I)

List-I	List-II	Explanation
(A) Ishaan spent a jealous afternoon scrolling through his friends’ holiday photos.	(III) Kabir sent his class teacher a nervous email asking for one more day to finish the project.	Both sentences use a transferred epithet, in which a describing word is moved from a person to a thing linked to them. Ishaan is jealous, not the afternoon. Kabir is nervous, not the email.
(B) The more Riya revised for the test, the more she realised how little she knew.	(IV) Our music teacher says that the most important notes in any song are the ones that are never played.	Both sentences use a paradox, a statement that seems to go against itself but still holds a truth. More study seems to bring less knowledge, but it shows Riya how much is left to learn. Notes that are never played seem to add nothing, but the short silences between notes give a song its shape.
(C) The school’s new ‘Say No to Plastic’ banner arrived wrapped in three layers of plastic.	(II) The day Meena finally bought an umbrella, it did not rain for the rest of the monsoon.	Both sentences use irony, in which the opposite of what we expect happens. A banner against plastic comes wrapped in plastic. The rain stops just when Meena is finally ready for it.
(D) The press gathered outside the hospital where the injured cricketer was being treated.	(I) Rekha left a safe bank job for the stage, and she has never looked back.	Both sentences use metonymy, which uses the name of one thing for something closely linked to it. “The press” stands for reporters. “The stage” stands for acting in plays.

Match the sentences in List-I with the sentences in List-II that use the same figure of speech.

List-I (Sentences)	List-II (Sentences)
(A) Ishaan spent a jealous afternoon scrolling through his friends’ holiday photos.	(I) Rekha left a safe bank job for the stage, and she has never looked back.
(B) The more Riya revised for the test, the more she realised how little she knew.	(II) The day Meena finally bought an umbrella, it did not rain for the rest of the monsoon.
(C) The school’s new ‘Say No to Plastic’ banner arrived wrapped in three layers of plastic.	(III) Kabir sent his class teacher a nervous email asking for one more day to finish the project.
(D) The press gathered outside the hospital where the injured cricketer was being treated.	(IV) Our music teacher says that the most important notes in any song are the ones that are never played.

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)-(II), (D)-(I)

List-I	List-II	Explanation
(A) Ishaan spent a jealous afternoon scrolling through his friends’ holiday photos.	(III) Kabir sent his class teacher a nervous email asking for one more day to finish the project.	Both sentences use a transferred epithet, in which a describing word is moved from a person to a thing linked to them. Ishaan is jealous, not the afternoon. Kabir is nervous, not the email.
(B) The more Riya revised for the test, the more she realised how little she knew.	(IV) Our music teacher says that the most important notes in any song are the ones that are never played.	Both sentences use a paradox, a statement that seems to go against itself but still holds a truth. More study seems to bring less knowledge, but it shows Riya how much is left to learn. Notes that are never played seem to add nothing, but the short silences between notes give a song its shape.
(C) The school’s new ‘Say No to Plastic’ banner arrived wrapped in three layers of plastic.	(II) The day Meena finally bought an umbrella, it did not rain for the rest of the monsoon.	Both sentences use irony, in which the opposite of what we expect happens. A banner against plastic comes wrapped in plastic. The rain stops just when Meena is finally ready for it.
(D) The press gathered outside the hospital where the injured cricketer was being treated.	(I) Rekha left a safe bank job for the stage, and she has never looked back.	Both sentences use metonymy, which uses the name of one thing for something closely linked to it. “The press” stands for reporters. “The stage” stands for acting in plays.