Choose the most appropriate option that best explains the figure of speech in this line: In rivers the water that you touch is the last of what passed and the first of that which comes: so, with time present. (Leonardo Da Vinci)
InstructionThese instructions are applicable only to questions 2 to 7
Following questions are based on the various Figures of Speech.
Question 2.
Which of the following statements is not an example of epigram ?
Question 3.
Which of the following statements is an example of Litotes ?
Question 4.
Which of the following statement is an example of metaphor ?
Question 5.
Which of the following statements is an example of Metonymy ?
Question 6.
Which of the following statements is an example of Oxymoron ?
Question 7.
Which of the following statements is an example of Pun ?
InstructionThese instructions are applicable only to questions 8 to 13
Name the various Figures of Speech in the following.
Question 8.
He was a learned man among lords, and a lord among learned men.
Question 9.
Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in dust be equal made with the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Question 10.
Brave Macbeth, with his brandished steel, carved out his passage.
Question 11.
We had nothing to do, and we did it very well.
Question 12.
And thou, Dalhousie, the great god of war Lieutenant-Colonel to the Earl of Mar.
Question 13.
The Puritan had been rescued by no common deliverer from the gasp of no common foe.
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