FIGURES OF SPEECH - TEST
By Anil S Awad
English
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Instructions: TOTAL
– 50 QUESTIONS
1. This test is exclusively for the students with
Study Notes and Online Coaching
2.
It is related to Figures of speech only. Next test will be on Meter
and Foot.
3. All other important instructions will be posted in
Study Groups.
Figures of speech – Test
1. ‘Listen, young men, to an old man to whom old men were glad to listen
when he was young’ – is an example of
A. Antithesis
B. Paradox
C. Irony
D. Pun
2. Read the following speech of Casca about Julies Caesar
CASCA:
“I can’t explain it. It was all silly and so I paid no attention. I saw
Mark Antony offer him a crown—though it wasn’t a real crown, just a small
circlet—and, as I told you, he refused it once—though in my opinion he would’ve
liked to have it. Then Antony offered it to him again, and he refused it again
(though, in my opinion, he was reluctant to take his hand off it). Then Antony
offered it the third time. He refused it the third time, and as he refused it
the commoners hooted and clapped their chapped hands, and threw up their sweaty
hats, and let loose such a great deal of stinking breath because Caesar refused
the crown that it nearly choked Caesar, because he fainted and fell down. As
for myself, I didn’t dare laugh, for fear of opening my lips and inhaling the
stinking air.”
Caesar refuses to accept the crown repeatedly, but desires for it privately
- This is the perfect example of___________
A. Antithesis
B. Accumulation
C. Accismus
D. Assimilation
3. Read the following sentences
A) Tropes changes the meaning
B) Schemes changes the word order
C) Irony, metaphor, metonymy, personification, simile, and synecdoche are
the bunch of figures of speech that belongs to Trophe
D) Alliosis,
Antithesis, Ellipsis and Parallelism are parts of Schemes
ANSWER
A) A and B is right
B) A, B and C is right
C) B, C and D is right
D) All are right
4. If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two,
Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
What kind of device do you see in it?
A. Conceit
B. Objective co-relative
C. Prosody
D. Dissociation of sensibility
8. Match the following –
I
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Homeoptoton
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A. Words that are identical with each other in pronunciation and
spelling, but different in meaning
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II
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Homographs
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B. Multiple words with the same ending
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III
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Homoioteleuton
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C. Words we write identically but which have a differing meaning
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IV
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Homonyms
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D. Ending the last parts of words with the same syllable or letter.
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ANSWER
I II III IV
A) A B C D
B) B C D A
C) D C B A
D) C D B A
14. Read the following sentences carefully and answer the question:
A. Buildingsroman is a novel or an artist
B. Kunstlerroman is novel of education
C. Deus ex machine device mainly used in ancient dramas
D. Dead Metaphor emphasis the relation between vehicle and tenor
Answer –
A) A and B right
B) A, B and C right
C) A, B and C wrong
D) A. B and D wrong
19. Alexander Pope quotes about Newton
“Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night:
God said let Newton be, and all was light.”
It is a/an
A) epithet
B) epiphany
C) pun
D) idiom
25. “Yesterday is a waste paper, today is a news paper, tomorrow is a
question paper and life is an answer paper.” – it is an example of
A) Eulogy
B) Epiphany
C) Aphorism
D) Anecdote
30. “Woods are lovely dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep”
The tone of the poet is_____
A) Didactic
B) Aesthetic
C) Optimistic
D) Pessimistic
38. Match the following:
I. Paronomasia A) A play on words
II. Onomatopoeia B) Meaningful sounds
III. Alliteration C)
Repetition of sounds
IV. Pun D) Double meaning
Answer –
I II
III IV
A) A B C D
B) D C B A
C) C A B D
D) B D A C
45. A stanza of irregular length is sometimes called ______
A) a verse paragraph
B) a verse
C) a free verse stanza
D) a paragraph
50. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free.
A) Alliteration
B) Onomatopoeia
C) Consonance
D) Assonance
By Anil S Awad
English Net/Set Consultant
9922113364/9423403368
anilawad123@gmail.com
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