Figures of Speech Objective Questions
26- Find out the figures of speech in the line below:
Whose conscience is his strong retreat.
(a)- Simile
(b)- Metaphor✅
(c)- Apostrophe
(d)- None of these
27- Find out the figures of speech in the line below:
My heart is like a singing bird.
(a)- Simile✅
(b)- Metaphor
(c)- Apostrophe
(d)- None of these
28- Find out the figures of speech in the line below:
Authority forgets a dying king.
(a)- Simile
(b)- Metaphor
(c)- Personification✅
(d)- None of these
29- Find out the figures of speech in the line below:
And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
(a)- Simile
(b)- Metaphor
(c)- Apostrophe
(d)- Onomatopoeia✅
30- Find out the figures of speech in the line below:
How high his Highness holds his haughty head.
(a)- Alliteration✅
(b)- Synecdoche
(c)- Apostrophe
(d)- None of these
31- Find out the figures of speech in the line below:
A fleet of fifty sail left the harbour.
(a)- Simile
(b)- Metaphor
(c)- Synecdoche✅
(d)- None of these
32- Find out the figures of speech in the line below:
I am a citizen of no mean city.
(a)- Simile
(b)- Metaphor
(c)- Apostrophe
(d)- Litotes✅
33- “Part is used to show the whole or the whole to a Part”-is the definition of which figures of speech?
(a)- Simile
(b)- Metaphor
(c)- Apostrophe
(d)- Synecdoche✅
34- In which figures of speech, a negative expression is made to suggest a strong affirmative sense.
(a)- Litotes✅
(b)- Alliteration
(c)- Apostrophe
(d)- None of these
35- Find out the figures of speech in the line below:
The child is the father of man.
(a)- Alliteration
(b)- Metaphor
(c)- Paradox✅
(d)- None of these
36- Find out the figures of speech in the line below:
A full purse never lacks friend.
(a)- Simile
(b)- Metaphor
(c)- Apostrophe
(d)- Metonymy✅
37- In which figures of speech, words are used in such a way that different meanings create humour, admiration or surprise?
(a)- Onomatopoeia
(b)- Litotes
(c)- Pun✅
(d)- None of these
38- Which is the definition of ‘Euphemism’?
(a)- Different between reality and appearance creates Irony.
(b)- Sound suggests meaning or sense.
(c)- A disagreeable thing is presented by an agreeable name.✅
(d)- Vowel sounds are repeated in a line.
39- Find out the figures of speech in the line below:
Am I my brother’s keeper?
(a)- Rhetorical✅
(b)- Metaphor
(c)- Assonance
(d)- None of these
40- In which figures of speech, a thing is hinted without saying it plainly?
(a)- Simile
(b)- Metaphor
(c)- Apostrophe
(d)- Innuendo✅
