Select the figures of speech used in the given lines.Fly envious Time…

The correct answer is Option (1) → (A) and (D) only

The lines are from John Milton's poem "On Time", in which the poet speaks directly to Time.

Figures of speech named in the statements:

• Personification: human qualities or actions are given to a thing or an idea.
  Example: The wind whispered through the trees.
• Alliteration: the same first consonant sound is repeated in words close together.
  Example: Wild winds whistled over the hills.
• Simile: a comparison made with like or as.
  Example: Her face shone like the moon.
• Metaphor: a comparison made directly, without like or as.
  Example: Time is a thief.
• Antithesis: opposite ideas set side by side in a balanced form.
  Example: To err is human; to forgive, divine.
• Pun: a play on a word with two meanings or on words that sound alike.
  Example: A bicycle cannot stand on its own because it is two-tired.

(A) personification, alliteration — Correct. Time is told to "fly" and to "run out thy race", actions of a living being, so it is personified. The repeated l sound in "lazy leaden-stepping" is alliteration.

(B) personification, simile — Incorrect. Personification is present, but there is no comparison with like or as, so there is no simile.

(C) antithesis, pun — Incorrect. No two opposite ideas are balanced against each other, and no word is used with a double meaning.

(D) personification, metaphor — Correct. Besides the personification, the passing of time is directly called a race, and the slow hours are "leaden-stepping", walking as if their feet were made of lead; both are comparisons without like or as, that is, metaphors.