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Match the expressions given in List I with the appropriate figures of…

Match the expressions given in List I with the appropriate figures of speech given in List II :

LIST-I (Phrases)		LIST-II (Figures of speech)
A.	Her voice crowds up and down the lawn	I.	Alliteration
B.	He makes no friend, who never made a foe.	II.	Personification
C.	Singing in summer in full-throated ease	III.	Hyperbole
D.	Winter laid its icy hands over the city.	IV.	Epigram

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 4

The correct answer is Option (4) → A - III, B - IV, C - I, D - II

List-I	List-II	Explanation	Example
A. Her voice crowds up and down the lawn	III. Hyperbole	Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration for effect, not meant to be taken literally. A voice cannot fill and crowd a whole lawn. The line exaggerates how loud and full her voice is.	I have told you a million times to shut the door.
B. He makes no friend, who never made a foe.	IV. Epigram	An epigram is a short, witty saying that puts a sharp truth in a memorable, often surprising form. The line is from Alfred Tennyson's "Lancelot and Elaine" (Idylls of the King). It says that a person who never makes an enemy never makes a true friend either.	I can resist everything except temptation.
C. Singing in summer in full-throated ease	I. Alliteration	Alliteration is the repetition of the same first consonant sound in words close together. The line echoes John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" ("Singest of summer in full-throated ease"). The "s" sound repeats in "singing" and "summer".	Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
D. Winter laid its icy hands over the city.	II. Personification	Personification gives human qualities or actions to something that is not human. Winter is given "hands", which it lays over the city like a person.	The wind whispered through the trees.

Match the expressions given in List I with the appropriate figures of speech given in List II :

LIST-I (Phrases)		LIST-II (Figures of speech)
A.	Her voice crowds up and down the lawn	I.	Alliteration
B.	He makes no friend, who never made a foe.	II.	Personification
C.	Singing in summer in full-throated ease	III.	Hyperbole
D.	Winter laid its icy hands over the city.	IV.	Epigram

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 4

The correct answer is Option (4) → A - III, B - IV, C - I, D - II

List-I	List-II	Explanation	Example
A. Her voice crowds up and down the lawn	III. Hyperbole	Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration for effect, not meant to be taken literally. A voice cannot fill and crowd a whole lawn. The line exaggerates how loud and full her voice is.	I have told you a million times to shut the door.
B. He makes no friend, who never made a foe.	IV. Epigram	An epigram is a short, witty saying that puts a sharp truth in a memorable, often surprising form. The line is from Alfred Tennyson's "Lancelot and Elaine" (Idylls of the King). It says that a person who never makes an enemy never makes a true friend either.	I can resist everything except temptation.
C. Singing in summer in full-throated ease	I. Alliteration	Alliteration is the repetition of the same first consonant sound in words close together. The line echoes John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" ("Singest of summer in full-throated ease"). The "s" sound repeats in "singing" and "summer".	Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
D. Winter laid its icy hands over the city.	II. Personification	Personification gives human qualities or actions to something that is not human. Winter is given "hands", which it lays over the city like a person.	The wind whispered through the trees.