Match the figures of speech in List-I with the sentences in List-II.
| List-I (Figures of speech) | List-II (Sentences) |
|---|---|
| (A) Simile | (I) The cyclone took away the family’s house, the year’s harvest, all their savings and, worst of all, Chintu’s new cricket bat. |
| (B) Anaphora | (II) The new warden counted forty heads in the mess hall before dinner was served. |
| (C) Anticlimax | (III) Grandfather’s memories of the old village came back slowly, like water filling a well after the first rains. |
| (D) Synecdoche | (IV) Not for fame, not for money, not for praise did Sunita Ma’am teach in that hill school for thirty years. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
| List-I | List-II | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Simile | (III) Grandfather’s memories of the old village came back slowly, like water filling a well after the first rains. | A simile compares two different things using “like” or “as”. The memories come back “like water filling a well”, slowly and little by little. |
| (B) Anaphora | (IV) Not for fame, not for money, not for praise did Sunita Ma’am teach in that hill school for thirty years. | In anaphora, the same word or words are repeated at the start of parts that follow one another. Here “not for” begins each of the three parts. |
| (C) Anticlimax | (I) The cyclone took away the family’s house, the year’s harvest, all their savings and, worst of all, Chintu’s new cricket bat. | In an anticlimax, ideas rise in importance and then suddenly drop to something small or silly. The losses grow from the house to all the savings. Then a child’s cricket bat is called “worst of all”. |
| (D) Synecdoche | (II) The new warden counted forty heads in the mess hall before dinner was served. | In a synecdoche, a part stands for the whole. “Forty heads” means forty students. |