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) Personification	(I) Ravi’s new spectacles were as thick as the bottoms of glass bottles.
(B) Simile	(II) Mohan first saved for a bicycle, then for a scooter, then for a car, and at last for a house for his parents.
(C) Apostrophe	(III) All through the night, the leaking kitchen tap nagged me about the plumber I had forgotten to call.
(D) Climax	(IV) Little paper boat, I made you from my old maths homework.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

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

List-I	List-II	Explanation
(A) Personification	(III) All through the night, the leaking kitchen tap nagged me about the plumber I had forgotten to call.	Personification gives human qualities or actions to a thing, an animal or an idea. A tap cannot nag, but here it keeps reminding the speaker like a person.
(B) Simile	(I) Ravi’s new spectacles were as thick as the bottoms of glass bottles.	A simile compares two different things using “like” or “as”. The spectacles are compared to the bottoms of glass bottles with “as thick as”.
(C) Apostrophe	(IV) Little paper boat, I made you from my old maths homework.	In an apostrophe, the speaker talks directly to a thing, an idea or an absent person, as if it can hear. The speaker talks to the boat: “Little paper boat” and “I made you”.
(D) Climax	(II) Mohan first saved for a bicycle, then for a scooter, then for a car, and at last for a house for his parents.	In a climax, ideas are arranged in rising order of importance. Each thing Mohan saves for is bigger than the last, from a bicycle up to a house.

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

List-I (Figures of speech)	List-II (Sentences)
(A) Personification	(I) Ravi’s new spectacles were as thick as the bottoms of glass bottles.
(B) Simile	(II) Mohan first saved for a bicycle, then for a scooter, then for a car, and at last for a house for his parents.
(C) Apostrophe	(III) All through the night, the leaking kitchen tap nagged me about the plumber I had forgotten to call.
(D) Climax	(IV) Little paper boat, I made you from my old maths homework.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

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

List-I	List-II	Explanation
(A) Personification	(III) All through the night, the leaking kitchen tap nagged me about the plumber I had forgotten to call.	Personification gives human qualities or actions to a thing, an animal or an idea. A tap cannot nag, but here it keeps reminding the speaker like a person.
(B) Simile	(I) Ravi’s new spectacles were as thick as the bottoms of glass bottles.	A simile compares two different things using “like” or “as”. The spectacles are compared to the bottoms of glass bottles with “as thick as”.
(C) Apostrophe	(IV) Little paper boat, I made you from my old maths homework.	In an apostrophe, the speaker talks directly to a thing, an idea or an absent person, as if it can hear. The speaker talks to the boat: “Little paper boat” and “I made you”.
(D) Climax	(II) Mohan first saved for a bicycle, then for a scooter, then for a car, and at last for a house for his parents.	In a climax, ideas are arranged in rising order of importance. Each thing Mohan saves for is bigger than the last, from a bicycle up to a house.