Match the figures of speech in List-I with the sentences in List-II.
| List-I (Figures of speech) | List-II (Sentences) |
|---|---|
| (A) Oxymoron | (I) O Monsoon, why do you keep us waiting every June? |
| (B) Hyperbole | (II) On the morning of the school fete, the staff room was a scene of organised chaos. |
| (C) Apostrophe | (III) New Delhi has announced fresh help for the flood-hit farmers of Assam. |
| (D) Metonymy | (IV) I have told you a million times to switch off the fan before you leave. |
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)-(I), (D)-(III)
| List-I | List-II | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Oxymoron | (II) On the morning of the school fete, the staff room was a scene of organised chaos. | An oxymoron puts two opposite words side by side. “Organised” and “chaos” are opposites. Here it means a busy, messy scene in which the work still gets done. |
| (B) Hyperbole | (IV) I have told you a million times to switch off the fan before you leave. | Hyperbole is a big exaggeration made for effect. Nobody says a thing a million times. The speaker only means “very many times”. |
| (C) Apostrophe | (I) O Monsoon, why do you keep us waiting every June? | In an apostrophe, the speaker talks directly to a thing, an idea or an absent person, as if it can hear. Here the speaker talks to the monsoon. |
| (D) Metonymy | (III) New Delhi has announced fresh help for the flood-hit farmers of Assam. | Metonymy uses the name of one thing for something closely linked to it. “New Delhi” stands for the Government of India, which works from there. |