Complete guide to "Figures of Speech" for English students. Below you will find important questions and model answers to help you prepare.
We are building a dedicated quiz for this topic, but you can test your skills on a similar concept: Scholarship-VIII Comprehension: Prose & Poetry - Practice Set 1.
Choose correct option of figure of speech ‘personification’.
The camel is the ship of desert.
Words are like leaves and where they most abound.
Death lays his icy hand on kings.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
What figure of speech is used in the sentence. The director replied, "Many are called but few are chosen."
Antithesis
Irony
Pun
Personification
Which figure of speech is in the following sentences. ‘To err is human, to forgive is divine.’
climax
antithesis
metaphor
simile