Add creativity to expressions!

General Studies English

Figures of speech play a crucial role in the English language, enhancing communication by adding depth, vividness, and creativity to expressions. They allow writers and speakers to convey complex ideas, emotions, and imagery in a concise and memorable manner. Whether it's similes, metaphors, personification, or hyperbole, these devices stimulate the imagination, evoke emotions, and engage the audience, making language more dynamic and expressive. Figures of speech are not merely decorative but serve as powerful tools for persuasion, persuasion, and storytelling, enriching both literature and everyday communication.

Figures of Speech

1.    Read the following lines from the poem Bangle Sellers. Who will buy these Delicate, bright Rainbow-tinted circles of light? Here the figure of speech employed is
    1) Hyperbole     2) Simile
    3) Transferred epithet     4) Metaphor

2. Camel is the ship of the dessert
    1) The figure of the speech is simile
    2) The figure of the speech is metaphor
    3) The figure of the speech is metonymy
    4) The figure of the speech is oxymoron

3. Chris blew the candle and cut the cake. Here we find the example of
    1) Hyperbole     2) Simile
    3) personification     4) Alliteration

4. His words felt like a sword in my chest. Here we find the example of
    1) Hyperbole    2) Simile
    3) imagery     4) Alliteration

5. Kim came to see crying baby on the couch. Here we find the example of
    1) Hyperbole     2) Simile
    3) personification     4) Alliteration

6. Truth sits on the lips of dying man. Here we find the example of
    1) Hyperbole     2) Simile
    3) personification     4) Alliteration

7. Life is a tale told by an idiot. Here we find the example of
    1) Hyperbole     2) Simile
    3) personification     4) Metaphor 

8. Dear, come near and fear not. Here we find the example of
    1) repetition     2) assonance
    3) alliteration       4) none of the these

9. Hope is the poor man’s bread. Here we find the example of     
    1) Metaphor     2) Simile
    3) personification     4) irony

10. She wept ocean of tears. Here we find the example of
    1) Hyperbole    2) oxymoron
    3) antithesis     4) none of these

11. You laugh at a person who slipped stepping on a banana peel, and the next thing you know, you’ve slipped too. Here we find the example of
    1) Hyperbole     2) Simile
    3) personification     4) irony

12. The name of Britain’s biggest dog was 'tiny'. Here we find the example of
    1) Hyperbole     2) Simile
    3) personification     4) Paradox

13. “War is a peace” “Freedom is slavery” “Ignorance is strength”
    1) Hyperbole     2) Simile
    3) personification     4) Paradox

14. Like, as, so are used in
    1) Metaphor     2) Simile
    3) pun     4) climax

15. They speak like saints, act like devils. This is an example of
    1) Hyperbole     2) antithesis
    3) personification     4) metaphor

16. If you hadn’t left the bike unlocked, it ......... Pick the correct option to complete it
    1) Would not have stolen
    2) Will be stolen
    3) Will not stolen
    4) Would have stolen

17. What is the figure of speech deployed in the given sentence. “Death leaped over the deer”
    1) Hyperbole     2) Simile
    3) Personification     4) Paradox

18. What is the figure of the speech that Gabriel Okara has employed in her poem "once up on a time", when she says: while their ice –block-cold eyes search behind my shadow
    1) Hyperbole     2) Simile
    3) personification     4) metaphor

19. Re arrange the following jumbled words/ phrases to make a meaningful sentence.
    Work more seriously/ his/ takes/ Unless/will fail/ his exams/ he
    1) Unless he takes his work more seriously, he will fail his exams.
    2) Unless he takes his work more seriously, he will fail his exams.
    3) Unless he takes his exams more seriously, he will fail his exams
    4) Unless he work more seriously takes his exams, he will fail

20. Figure of the speech: “The old field is sad Now the children have gone home. They have played with him all afternoon”
    1) Hyperbole     2) Simile
    3) personification     4) Paradox

21. In the line, ‘I bare light shade for the leaves when laid.’ P.B. Shelly uses this figure of the
    1) Hyperbole     2) Oxymoron
    3) personification     4) Alliteration

22. The phrase “on scrolls of silver snowy sentences” is an example of
    1) Hyperbole     2) Oxymoron
    3) personification     4) Alliteration

23. I had so much homework last night I needed a pickup truck to carry all my books home! is an example of
    1) Hyperbole     2) Oxymoron
    3) personification     4) Alliteration

24. ‘like summer tempest came her tears’… is an example of
    1) Hyperbole     2) simile
    3) personification     4) Alliteration

25. ‘My teeth like a snake’s bare fangs’ is an example of
    1) Hyperbole     2) simile
    3) personification     4) Alliteration

26. ‘She sold sea shells sadly’ is an example of...
    1) Hyperbole     2) simile
    3) personification     4) Alliteration

27. ‘Jim jumped from the jeep in the jungle’ is an example of
    1) imagery     2) simile
    3) metaphor     4) Alliteration

28. ‘The burning wood hissed and cracked’ is an example of
    1) Hyperbole     2) onomatopoeia
    3) pun     4) satire

29. ‘It is an open secret that they have been having affair for the past six months’ chose the literary device used in the underline phrase.
    1) Hyperbole     2) oxymoron
    3) personification     4) Alliteration

30. ‘Use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to is
    1) Hyperbole     
    2) onomatopoeia
    3) pun     
    4) satire

Writer: Putnam Ravi kumar

Answers

1-4; 2-2; 3-4; 4-3; 5-4; 6-3; 7-4; 8-2; 9-1; 10-1; 11-4; 12-4; 13-4; 14-2; 15-2; 16-1; 17-3; 18-4; 19-1; 20-3; 21-4; 22-4; 23-1; 24-2; 25-2; 26-4; 27-4; 28-2; 29-2; 30-2.