Figures of Speech-No Men are Foreign TNPSC Group 2 2A Questions

General English Part-B Poetry

Figures of Speech-No Men are Foreign MCQ Questions


7.
What figure of speech is in the line
"In every land is common life / That all can recognise and understand"?
A.
Assonance
B.
Metaphor
C.
Personification
D.
Hyperbole
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ANSWER :
A. Assonance
8.
Identify the figure of speech in
"Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence / Of air that is everywhere our own"
A.
Hyperbole
B.
Onomatopoeia
C.
Assonance
D.
Personification
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ANSWER :
D. Personification
9.
Identify the figure of speech in "It is the human earth that we defile".
A.
Metaphor
B.
Personification
C.
Simile
D.
Alliteration
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ANSWER :
B. Personification
10.
Which line from the poem contains a simile?
i) "Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes"
ii) "Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon"
iii) "Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence"
iv) "In every land is common life"
A.
i)
B.
i) & iii)
C.
iv)
D.
None of the above
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ANSWER :
D. None of the above
11.
What figure of speech is used in "By war’s long winter starv’d"?
A.
Simile
B.
Metaphor
C.
Oxymoron
D.
Personification
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ANSWER :
B. Metaphor
12.
What figure of speech is used in "Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon"?
A.
Metaphor
B.
Personification
C.
Simile
D.
Alliteration
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ANSWER :
C. Simile