◼️ 1. A direct comparison using like or as is called:
(a) Metaphor (b) Simile (c) Personification (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (b) Simile.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Compares two things directly with “like” or “as.” 🌸
◼️ 2. An implied comparison without using like or as is called:
(a) Simile (b) Hyperbole (c) Metaphor (d) Irony
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Suggests one thing is another for vivid effect. 🌟
◼️ 3. Giving human qualities to non-human things is:
(a) Metaphor (b) Personification (c) Simile (d) Alliteration
✅ Answer: (b) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Non-human objects act like humans. 🕊️
◼️ 4. An extreme exaggeration for emphasis is called:
(a) Hyperbole (b) Litotes (c) Euphemism (d) Metaphor
✅ Answer: (a) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Overstates reality for dramatic effect. 📢
◼️ 5. A statement that seems contradictory but contains truth is a:
(a) Oxymoron (b) Paradox (c) Irony (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (b) Paradox.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Self-contradictory but reveals deeper meaning. 🪞
◼️ 6. A phrase combining opposite terms is an:
(a) Paradox (b) Oxymoron (c) Metaphor (d) Simile
✅ Answer: (b) Oxymoron.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Two contradictory words placed together. ⚖️
◼️ 7. An indirect reference to a famous person, place, or event is:
(a) Allusion (b) Epigram (c) Paradox (d) Allegory
✅ Answer: (a) Allusion.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Short reference requiring reader knowledge.
◼️ 8. Which character is based on Dickens’ own father?
(a) Uriah Heep (b) Mr. Wickfield (c) Mr. Micawber (d) Mr. Murdstone
✅ Answer: (c) Mr. Micawber.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Wilkins Micawber – based on Dickens’ own father.
◼️ 9. A play on words that exploits multiple meanings is called:
(a) Pun (b) Irony (c) Satire (d) Allegory
✅ Answer: (a) Pun.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Clever wordplay for humor or wit. 😏
◼️ 10. An indirect or passing reference is a:
(a) Alliteration (b) Allusion (c) Allegory (d) Irony
✅ Answer: (b) Allusion.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Refers to a person/event without explicit mention. 📚
◼️ 11. The repetition of initial consonant sounds is:
(a) Alliteration (b) Assonance (c) Consonance (d) Onomatopoeia
✅ Answer: (a) Alliteration.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Same starting consonant sounds in words. 🎵
◼️ 12. Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words is:
(a) Assonance (b) Alliteration (c) Consonance (d) Metonymy
✅ Answer: (a) Assonance.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Similar vowel sounds in non-rhyming words. 🎶
◼️ 13. Repetition of consonant sounds within or at end is:
(a) Consonance (b) Alliteration (c) Assonance (d) Metaphor
✅ Answer: (a) Consonance.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Consonant repetition in close words. 🎵
◼️ 14. Substituting an attribute or related term for the thing is:
(a) Synecdoche (b) Metonymy (c) Allegory (d) Irony
✅ Answer: (b) Metonymy.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 “The crown” for monarchy. 👑
◼️ 15. A part representing the whole, or vice versa, is:
(a) Metonymy (b) Synecdoche (c) Hyperbole (d) Irony
✅ Answer: (b) Synecdoche.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 “All hands on deck” means all sailors. 🛳️
◼️ 16. A story or image revealing hidden meaning is an:
(a) Allegory (b) Parable (c) Allusion (d) Fable
✅ Answer: (a) Allegory.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Extended metaphor with symbolic meaning. 🏞️
◼️ 17. A short story teaching a moral lesson is:
(a) Allegory (b) Parable (c) Allusion (d) Pun
✅ Answer: (b) Parable.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Simple story with a moral, often religious. ✝️
◼️ 18. A brief, witty, and often paradoxical statement is an:
(a) Epigram (b) Paradox (c) Oxymoron (d) Satire
✅ Answer: (a) Epigram.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Concise, clever, and memorable saying. 💡
◼️ 19. Ridiculing folly or vice to improve society is:
(a) Satire (b) Parody (c) Irony (d) Allegory
✅ Answer: (a) Satire.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Uses humor to expose faults. 🎯
◼️ 20. Imitating a work for comic effect is:
(a) Satire (b) Parody (c) Irony (d) Allegory
✅ Answer: (b) Parody.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Humorous imitation of a style or work. 🎭
◼️ 21. Words imitating sounds, like “buzz” or “bang,” are called:
(a) Alliteration (b) Assonance (c) Onomatopoeia (d) Paradox
✅ Answer: (c) Onomatopoeia.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Word mimics the sound it describes. 🔊
◼️ 22. “To be or not to be” — the repetition of structure in successive phrases is:
(a) Climax (b) Parallelism (c) Antithesis (d) Epigram
✅ Answer: (b) Parallelism.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Using the same grammatical form for rhythm and balance. 📏
◼️ 23. Arranging ideas in increasing order of importance is called:
(a) Climax (b) Anticlimax (c) Anaphora (d) Epistrophe
✅ Answer: (a) Climax.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Sequence builds up to the most important or intense point. 📈
◼️ 24. Arranging ideas so they decline in importance is:
(a) Climax (b) Anticlimax (c) Antithesis (d) Oxymoron
✅ Answer: (b) Anticlimax.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Sudden drop from important to trivial for humor or irony. 🎭
◼️ 25. Repetition of a word/phrase at the beginning of successive clauses is:
(a) Epistrophe (b) Anaphora (c) Climax (d) Tautology
✅ Answer: (b) Anaphora.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Starting multiple lines/clauses with the same word(s). 🔁
◼️ 26. Repetition at the end of successive clauses is called:
(a) Anaphora (b) Epistrophe (c) Refrain (d) Alliteration
✅ Answer: (b) Epistrophe.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Same word/phrase repeated at clause endings. 🎯
◼️ 27. A word or phrase repeated at intervals in a poem/song is a:
(a) Refrain (b) Anaphora (c) Chiasmus (d) Alliteration
✅ Answer: (a) Refrain.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Recurring line for emphasis or musicality. 🎶
◼️ 28. Reversal of the order of words in two parallel phrases is:
(a) Chiasmus (b) Antithesis (c) Parallelism (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (a) Chiasmus.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Structure AB → BA for emphasis. 🔄
◼️ 29. A question asked for effect, not for an answer, is:
(a) Rhetorical question (b) Hypophora (c) Apostrophe (d) Paradox
✅ Answer: (a) Rhetorical question.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Asked to provoke thought rather than elicit response. ❓
◼️ 30. An extravagant exaggeration, like “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse,” is:
(a) Hyperbole (b) Litotes (c) Metaphor (d) Euphemism
✅ Answer: (a) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Extreme overstatement for emphasis. 📢
◼️ 31. Deliberate understatement, often using “not” (e.g., “not bad” meaning good), is:
(a) Hyperbole (b) Litotes (c) Euphemism (d) Oxymoron
✅ Answer: (b) Litotes.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Understatement to create emphasis or irony. 🎯
◼️ 32. Placing two or more nouns together where only one is appropriate is:
(a) Zeugma (b) Syllepsis (c) Ellipsis (d) Periphrasis
✅ Answer: (a) Zeugma.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 One word applies to multiple parts of a sentence. ✂️
◼️ 33. Repetition of a word with a slight change in meaning is:
(a) Antanaclasis (b) Tautology (c) Anadiplosis (d) Polyptoton
✅ Answer: (a) Antanaclasis.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Word repeated but used with a different sense. 🔄
◼️ 34. Needless repetition of the same idea (e.g., “free gift”) is:
(a) Tautology (b) Hyperbole (c) Antithesis (d) Parallelism
✅ Answer: (a) Tautology.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Redundant expression of meaning. ♻️
◼️ 35. Repetition of the last word of a clause at the start of the next is:
(a) Anadiplosis (b) Anaphora (c) Epistrophe (d) Chiasmus
✅ Answer: (a) Anadiplosis.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Creates a link between two sentences or clauses. 🔗
◼️ 36. Repetition of the same root word with different endings is:
(a) Polyptoton (b) Antanaclasis (c) Tautology (d) Assonance
✅ Answer: (a) Polyptoton.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Same word root appears in varied grammatical forms. 🌀
◼️ 37. Two statements that seem opposite but both are true is a:
(a) Paradox (b) Oxymoron (c) Antithesis (d) Epigram
✅ Answer: (a) Paradox.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Contradiction that holds a hidden truth. 🪞
◼️ 38. Sudden break in a sentence to address someone absent/present is:
(a) Apostrophe (b) Parenthesis (c) Rhetorical question (d) Conceit
✅ Answer: (a) Apostrophe.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Speaker directly addresses a person/thing. 🗣️
◼️ 39. Use of conjunctions between all words/phrases for emphasis is:
(a) Asyndeton (b) Polysyndeton (c) Zeugma (d) Chiasmus
✅ Answer: (b) Polysyndeton.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Many conjunctions used for rhythmic effect. 🔗
◼️ 40. Omission of conjunctions between parts of a sentence is:
(a) Polysyndeton (b) Asyndeton (c) Anadiplosis (d) Parallelism
✅ Answer: (b) Asyndeton.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Creates fast pace by leaving out conjunctions. ⚡
◼️ 41. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Personification (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (a) Simile.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Wordsworth compares himself to a cloud using “as.”
◼️ 42. “The forest swallowed him up” is an example of:
(a) Hyperbole (b) Metaphor (c) Personification (d) Apostrophe
✅ Answer: (c) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 The forest is given the human ability to swallow.
◼️ 43. “This is the winter of our discontent” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Irony (d) Oxymoron
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Shakespeare uses “winter” metaphorically to mean unhappiness.
◼️ 44. “O Captain! My Captain!” is an example of:
(a) Apostrophe (b) Metaphor (c) Irony (d) Simile
✅ Answer: (a) Apostrophe.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Whitman directly addresses Abraham Lincoln as “Captain.”
◼️ 45. “A rolling stone gathers no moss” is an example of:
(a) Aphorism (b) Paradox (c) Hyperbole (d) Metaphor
✅ Answer: (a) Aphorism.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 A proverb-like statement of wisdom.
◼️ 46. “The city never sleeps” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Personification (c) Hyperbole (d) Irony
✅ Answer: (b) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 The city is given human ability to sleep.
◼️ 47. “His mind was a well-oiled machine” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Alliteration (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Compares mind to a smooth-functioning machine.
◼️ 48. “The waves hissed and roared” is an example of:
(a) Onomatopoeia (b) Alliteration (c) Simile (d) Metaphor
✅ Answer: (a) Onomatopoeia.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Words imitate natural sounds of waves.
◼️ 49. “Parting is such sweet sorrow” is an example of:
(a) Oxymoron (b) Simile (c) Hyperbole (d) Paradox
✅ Answer: (a) Oxymoron.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Shakespeare joins contradictory ideas “sweet” and “sorrow.”
◼️ 50. “He has the heart of a lion” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Hyperbole (d) Personification
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Compares courage to a lion’s heart.
◼️ 51. “All the world’s a stage” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Personification (d) Apostrophe
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Shakespeare compares the world to a stage.
◼️ 52. “Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Alliteration (d) Irony
✅ Answer: (a) Simile.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Shakespeare compares human life to waves moving toward shore.
◼️ 53. “My love is a red, red rose” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor (b) Simile (c) Personification (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (b) Simile.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Burns compares love to a rose using “is a.”
◼️ 54. “The thunder grumbled and muttered” is an example of:
(a) Alliteration (b) Personification (c) Onomatopoeia (d) Metaphor
✅ Answer: (b) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Gives thunder human-like speech.
◼️ 55. “A golden key can open any door” is an example of:
(a) Aphorism (b) Hyperbole (c) Simile (d) Metaphor
✅ Answer: (a) Aphorism.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 A metaphorical proverb meaning wealth can achieve many things.
◼️ 56. “The brook babbled on happily” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor (b) Alliteration (c) Personification (d) Onomatopoeia
✅ Answer: (c) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 The brook is described as speaking.
◼️ 57. “The night has a thousand eyes” is an example of:
(a) Hyperbole (b) Personification (c) Simile (d) Metaphor
✅ Answer: (b) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Stars are described as the eyes of the night.
◼️ 58. “Her smile was as bright as the sun” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor (b) Hyperbole (c) Simile (d) Personification
✅ Answer: (c) Simile.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Compares brightness of smile to the sun using “as.”
◼️ 59. “The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor (b) Personification (c) Simile (d) Oxymoron
✅ Answer: (b) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Shakespeare gives the clock’s bell a human tongue.
◼️ 60. “A light heart lives long” is an example of:
(a) Aphorism (b) Metaphor (c) Hyperbole (d) Simile
✅ Answer: (a) Aphorism.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 A concise, wise saying about cheerfulness and longevity.
◼️ 61. “Hope is the thing with feathers” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Personification (c) Metaphor (d) Apostrophe
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Emily Dickinson compares hope to a bird without using “like” or “as.”
◼️ 62. “Can I not grasp them with a tighter clasp?” is an example of:
(a) Rhetorical Question (b) Metaphor (c) Personification (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (a) Rhetorical Question.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Asked for effect, not to receive an answer.
◼️ 63. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” is an example of:
(a) Hyperbole (b) Aphorism (c) Metaphor (d) Simile
✅ Answer: (b) Aphorism.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Keats expresses a universal truth poetically.
◼️ 64. “The moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Personification (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Noyes compares the moon to a ship without “like” or “as.”
◼️ 65. “The pen is mightier than the sword” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor (b) Personification (c) Synecdoche (d) Irony
✅ Answer: (a) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Compares writing (pen) to physical force (sword) symbolically.
◼️ 66. “Busy old fool, unruly sun” is an example of:
(a) Apostrophe (b) Personification (c) Simile (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (a) Apostrophe.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Donne addresses the sun directly as if it were a person.
◼️ 67. “Life is but a walking shadow” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Irony (d) Personification
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Shakespeare compares life to an insubstantial shadow.
◼️ 68. “Sweet are the uses of adversity” is an example of:
(a) Paradox (b) Metaphor (c) Irony (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (a) Paradox.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Suggests something seemingly bad (adversity) can be beneficial.
◼️ 69. “The child is the father of the man” is an example of:
(a) Paradox (b) Irony (c) Hyperbole (d) Simile
✅ Answer: (a) Paradox.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Wordsworth’s statement seems contradictory but conveys truth.
◼️ 70. “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” is an example of:
(a) Personification (b) Apostrophe (c) Metaphor (d) Simile
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Thomas uses “light” as a metaphor for life.
◼️ 71. “The kettle sang on the stove” is an example of:
(a) Onomatopoeia (b) Personification (c) Simile (d) Metaphor
✅ Answer: (b) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Gives the kettle the human ability to sing.
◼️ 72. “He is a Hercules in strength” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor (b) Simile (c) Allusion (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (c) Allusion.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Refers to the mythological Hercules to suggest great strength.
◼️ 73. “So many worlds, so much to do” is an example of:
(a) Hyperbole (b) Parallelism (c) Personification (d) Metaphor
✅ Answer: (b) Parallelism.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Repetition of structure for rhythm and emphasis.
◼️ 74. “The woods are getting ready to sleep” is an example of:
(a) Personification (b) Metaphor (c) Simile (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (a) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Gives the woods human qualities.
◼️ 75. “Time is a thief” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Personification (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Compares time to a thief who steals moments.
◼️ 76. “All hands on deck” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor (b) Synecdoche (c) Metonymy (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (b) Synecdoche.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 “Hands” refers to sailors, a part representing the whole.
◼️ 77. “The crown will decide the nation’s fate” is an example of:
(a) Metonymy (b) Synecdoche (c) Metaphor (d) Irony
✅ Answer: (a) Metonymy.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 “Crown” represents the monarchy.
◼️ 78. “He has a mountain of debt” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Hyperbole (d) Personification
✅ Answer: (c) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Exaggerates the amount of debt by comparing it to a mountain.
◼️ 79. “The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew” is an example of:
(a) Alliteration (b) Onomatopoeia (c) Simile (d) Personification
✅ Answer: (a) Alliteration.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Repetition of the “b” and “f” sounds.
◼️ 80. “The walls have ears” is an example of:
(a) Personification (b) Metaphor (c) Hyperbole (d) Simile
✅ Answer: (a) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Attributes the human sense of hearing to walls.
◼️ 81. “Death lays his icy hand on kings” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Personification (c) Metaphor (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (b) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Death is given the human ability to lay a hand.
◼️ 82. “O my love is like a red, red rose” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Alliteration (d) Apostrophe
✅ Answer: (a) Simile.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Burns compares love to a rose using “like.”
◼️ 83. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” is an example of:
(a) Paradox (b) Irony (c) Simile (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (a) Paradox.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Shakespeare presents an apparent contradiction with hidden truth.
◼️ 84. “I have miles to go before I sleep” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor (b) Symbolism (c) Simile (d) Personification
✅ Answer: (b) Symbolism.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Frost uses “sleep” to symbolize death.
◼️ 85. “The city never sleeps” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Personification (c) Hyperbole (d) Alliteration
✅ Answer: (b) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 The city is given the human quality of not sleeping.
◼️ 86. “So dawn goes down to day” is an example of:
(a) Personification (b) Metaphor (c) Alliteration (d) Simile
✅ Answer: (a) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Dawn is described as if it can physically move.
◼️ 87. “The wind whispered through the trees” is an example of:
(a) Personification (b) Simile (c) Alliteration (d) Metaphor
✅ Answer: (a) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 The wind is described as whispering like a human.
◼️ 88. “Life is like a box of chocolates” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Allusion (d) Irony
✅ Answer: (a) Simile.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Compares life to chocolates using “like.”
◼️ 89. “The waves danced in the sunlight” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Personification (c) Hyperbole (d) Onomatopoeia
✅ Answer: (b) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Waves are given the human action of dancing.
◼️ 90. “A sea of troubles” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Hyperbole (d) Symbolism
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Troubles are compared to an endless sea.
◼️ 91. “The stars winked at me” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Hyperbole (c) Personification (d) Alliteration
✅ Answer: (c) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Stars are given the human act of winking.
◼️ 92. “As brave as a lion” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Personification (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (a) Simile.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Compares bravery to a lion using “as.”
◼️ 93. “O Captain! my Captain!” is an example of:
(a) Apostrophe (b) Metaphor (c) Personification (d) Allusion
✅ Answer: (a) Apostrophe.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Whitman addresses Lincoln directly as “Captain.”
◼️ 94. “The silence was deafening” is an example of:
(a) Hyperbole (b) Oxymoron (c) Metaphor (d) Paradox
✅ Answer: (a) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Extreme exaggeration describing silence.
◼️ 95. “The golden sun smiled down” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Personification (c) Metaphor (d) Symbolism
✅ Answer: (b) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Sun is given the human act of smiling.
◼️ 96. “Hark! the lark at heaven’s gate sings” is an example of:
(a) Apostrophe (b) Alliteration (c) Onomatopoeia (d) Personification
✅ Answer: (a) Apostrophe.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Directly calls attention to the bird’s song.
◼️ 97. “The classroom was a zoo” is an example of:
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Hyperbole (d) Personification
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Compares noisy students to a zoo without “like” or “as.”
◼️ 98. “He is the Newton of our school” is an example of:
(a) Allusion (b) Simile (c) Metaphor (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (a) Allusion.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 References Isaac Newton to suggest great intelligence.
◼️ 99. “With bleeding hands and tear-filled eyes” is an example of:
(a) Imagery (b) Hyperbole (c) Simile (d) Irony
✅ Answer: (a) Imagery.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Appeals to the senses with vivid detail.
◼️ 100. “The earth hath swallowed all my hopes” is an example of:
(a) Personification (b) Hyperbole (c) Simile (d) Metaphor
✅ Answer: (a) Personification.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Earth is given the human ability to swallow.
Perfect 👍 I’ll now reframe the MCQs with horizontal options (a–d in one line) and start numbering from 101 as you asked.
101. Which figure of speech is used in the sentence — “This I must see.”?
a) Ellipsis b) Hyperbaton c) Hypallage d) Transferred Epithet
✅ Answer: (b) Hyperbaton
🔷📘 Explanation: The usual order “I must see this” is inverted → Hyperbaton.
102. In which of the following sentences is Hypallage found?
a) She sings sweetly b) He rested under the weary road c) The sun rises in the east d) He passed a sleepless night
✅ Answer: (b) He rested under the weary road
🔷📘 Explanation: ‘Weary’ is logically for the traveler, but transferred to ‘road’ → Hypallage.
103. Identify the Transferred Epithet in this sentence: “He passed a sleepless night.”
a) Night → Sleepless b) He → Sleepless c) Passed → Sleepless d) None
✅ Answer: (a) Night → Sleepless
🔷📘 Explanation: ‘Sleepless’ describes the man but is grammatically attached to ‘night’ → Transferred Epithet.
104. Which of the following is an example of Hyperbaton?
a) Hardly had I reached when the train left b) This I must see c) He passed a sleepless night d) He rested under the weary road
✅ Answer: (b) This I must see
🔷📘 Explanation: Inversion of word order for emphasis → Hyperbaton.
105. “The weary road” is an example of which figure of speech?
a) Ellipsis b) Hyperbaton c) Hypallage d) Transferred Epithet
✅ Answer: (c) Hypallage
🔷📘 Explanation: The adjective ‘weary’ belongs to the traveler but is applied to ‘road’ → Hypallage.
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