Literary devices --Choose the correct option. ( With Answers)

 Choose the option that correctly categorizes the given literary devices as per the given 

analogy.

selfish cars : ___________ :: ___________ : metaphor 

(A) personification; polished traffic 

(B) transferred epithet; trusting sorrow 

(C) metaphor; pitiful kin 

(D) oxymoron; greedy good-doers

Correct Answer: (B) transferred epithet; trusting sorrow

Select the correct figures of speech used in the lines quoted below.  

The soul was like a star and dwelt apart. o

 (a)  Alliteration  

(b)  Pun  

 (c)  Oxymoron  

(d)  None of the above

    ANSWER d 

Select the correct option.  Half rhyme is also called:- 

(a)  perfect rhyme 

 (b)  lazy rhyme  

(c)  mono rhyme  

(d)  None of the above

     ANSWER b

Select the correct figures of speech used in the lines quoted below.  

I heard the water lapping on the crag.  

 (a)  Simile  

 (b)  Assonance  

(c)  Repetition  

(d)  Onomatopoeia  

   ANSWER d


Select the correct figures of speech used in the lines quoted below. 

 The road was a ribbon of moonlight 

 (a)  Alliteration  

 (b)  Simile 

(c)  Metaphor  

(d)  Oxymoron  

   ANSWER c


Select the correct figures of speech used in the lines quoted below.  

A little noiseless noise among the leaves. 

 (a)  Metaphor  

 (b)  Oxymoron  

 (c)  Personification  

 (d)  Antithesis  

ANSWER b

 The literary device used in 'sleek, chivalric certainty' is ____________. 

(a)  simile  

 (b)  alliteration  

(c)  personification  

(d)  metaphor  

ANSWER b

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