Figures of Speech-The Secret of the Machine TNPSC Group 2 2A Questions

General English Part-B Poetry

Figures of Speech-The Secret of the Machine MCQ Questions


7.
"We can see and hear and count and read and write!,"
Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence
A.
Metaphor
B.
Personification
C.
Rhymes
D.
Imagery
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ANSWER :
D. Imagery
8.
Which word rhymes with "light"?
A.
Write
B.
Play
C.
World
D.
Let
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ANSWER :
A. Write
9.
Find the Annaphora in the below stanza
We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive,
We can print and plough and weave and heat and light
A.
Pull , Haul
B.
Lift, light
C.
We can , We can
D.
Drive, Weave
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ANSWER :
C. We can , We can
10.
Which figure of speech is evident in
We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive,
A.
Metaphor
B.
Personification
C.
Rhymes
D.
Imagery
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ANSWER :
B. Personification
11.
Mention the Rhyming scheme given in the Below phrase
We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine,
We were melted in the furnace and the pit—
We were cast and wrought and hammered to design,
We were cut and filed and tooled and gauged to fit
A.
abbb
B.
abab
C.
abba
D.
aaab
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ANSWER :
B. abab
12.
Mention the figure of speechs used in the below stanza
Some water, coal, and oil is all we ask,
And a thousandth of an inch to give us play:
And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!
A.
Anaphora
B.
Assonance
C.
Hyperbole
D.
All the above
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ANSWER :
D. All the above