Match the sentences given in LIST-I with a similar usage of figures o…

Match the sentences given in LIST-I with a similar usage of figures of speech in sentences given in LIST-II

LIST-I		LIST-II
A.	Rays of the sunlight danced through the trees.	I.	He was a lion in the battlefield
B.	You are the apple of my eye.	II.	He hummed a beautiful hymn.
C.	She could handle ten thousand tasks in a jiffy.	III.	Earth is a kind being.
D.	Betty bought some butter.	IV.	He ran faster than lightning.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 2

The correct answer is Option (2) → A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

List-I	List-II	Explanation	Example
A. Rays of the sunlight danced through the trees.	III. Earth is a kind being.	Personification gives human qualities or actions to something that is not human. The sunlight is said to "dance", and the Earth is called "kind"; both lines are personification.	The stars winked at us from the night sky.
B. You are the apple of my eye.	I. He was a lion in the battlefield	A metaphor says that one thing is another, without "like" or "as". A dear person is called "the apple of my eye" (someone treasured above all), and a brave man is called "a lion"; both lines are metaphors.	Her smile was a ray of sunshine in the gloomy room.
C. She could handle ten thousand tasks in a jiffy.	IV. He ran faster than lightning.	Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration for effect, not meant to be taken literally. No one can finish ten thousand tasks in a moment or run faster than lightning; both lines are hyperbole.	I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
D. Betty bought some butter.	II. He hummed a beautiful hymn.	Alliteration is the repetition of the same first consonant sound in words close together. The "b" sound repeats in Betty, bought, butter, and the "h" sound in he, hummed, hymn.	Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Match the sentences given in LIST-I with a similar usage of figures of speech in sentences given in LIST-II

LIST-I		LIST-II
A.	Rays of the sunlight danced through the trees.	I.	He was a lion in the battlefield
B.	You are the apple of my eye.	II.	He hummed a beautiful hymn.
C.	She could handle ten thousand tasks in a jiffy.	III.	Earth is a kind being.
D.	Betty bought some butter.	IV.	He ran faster than lightning.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 2

The correct answer is Option (2) → A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

List-I	List-II	Explanation	Example
A. Rays of the sunlight danced through the trees.	III. Earth is a kind being.	Personification gives human qualities or actions to something that is not human. The sunlight is said to "dance", and the Earth is called "kind"; both lines are personification.	The stars winked at us from the night sky.
B. You are the apple of my eye.	I. He was a lion in the battlefield	A metaphor says that one thing is another, without "like" or "as". A dear person is called "the apple of my eye" (someone treasured above all), and a brave man is called "a lion"; both lines are metaphors.	Her smile was a ray of sunshine in the gloomy room.
C. She could handle ten thousand tasks in a jiffy.	IV. He ran faster than lightning.	Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration for effect, not meant to be taken literally. No one can finish ten thousand tasks in a moment or run faster than lightning; both lines are hyperbole.	I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
D. Betty bought some butter.	II. He hummed a beautiful hymn.	Alliteration is the repetition of the same first consonant sound in words close together. The "b" sound repeats in Betty, bought, butter, and the "h" sound in he, hummed, hymn.	Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.