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

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

List-I (Figures of speech)	List-II (Sentences)
(A) Litotes	(I) The morning after Diwali, the market street looked like a battlefield of paper and ash.
(B) Synecdoche	(II) Riya’s 97 in Physics is no mean score.
(C) Metaphor	(III) Our cricket coach is a volcano when we drop easy catches.
(D) Simile	(IV) Kerala lifted the Santosh Trophy after a tense penalty shoot-out.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

The correct answer is Option (1) → (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

List-I	List-II	Explanation
(A) Litotes	(II) Riya’s 97 in Physics is no mean score.	Litotes says something positive by putting “not” or “no” before its opposite. “No mean score” means a very good score.
(B) Synecdoche	(IV) Kerala lifted the Santosh Trophy after a tense penalty shoot-out.	In synecdoche, a part stands for the whole or the whole for a part. “Kerala”, the whole state, stands for its football team.
(C) Metaphor	(III) Our cricket coach is a volcano when we drop easy catches.	A metaphor says that one thing is another, without “like” or “as”. The coach is called “a volcano” because his anger bursts out suddenly.
(D) Simile	(I) The morning after Diwali, the market street looked like a battlefield of paper and ash.	A simile compares two different things using “like” or “as”. The market street is compared to a battlefield with “looked like”.

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

List-I (Figures of speech)	List-II (Sentences)
(A) Litotes	(I) The morning after Diwali, the market street looked like a battlefield of paper and ash.
(B) Synecdoche	(II) Riya’s 97 in Physics is no mean score.
(C) Metaphor	(III) Our cricket coach is a volcano when we drop easy catches.
(D) Simile	(IV) Kerala lifted the Santosh Trophy after a tense penalty shoot-out.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

The correct answer is Option (1) → (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

List-I	List-II	Explanation
(A) Litotes	(II) Riya’s 97 in Physics is no mean score.	Litotes says something positive by putting “not” or “no” before its opposite. “No mean score” means a very good score.
(B) Synecdoche	(IV) Kerala lifted the Santosh Trophy after a tense penalty shoot-out.	In synecdoche, a part stands for the whole or the whole for a part. “Kerala”, the whole state, stands for its football team.
(C) Metaphor	(III) Our cricket coach is a volcano when we drop easy catches.	A metaphor says that one thing is another, without “like” or “as”. The coach is called “a volcano” because his anger bursts out suddenly.
(D) Simile	(I) The morning after Diwali, the market street looked like a battlefield of paper and ash.	A simile compares two different things using “like” or “as”. The market street is compared to a battlefield with “looked like”.