Question

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Answer 1

1. Ocean's sound is music to my ear. (Metaphor)

• Metaphor is a figure of speech which compares two unlike things in an implicit manner.
• Here ocean's sound is compared with music.

2. Angry clouds surrounded the water. (Personification)

• Personification is a figure of speech which gives human characteristics to to non-human.
• Here human characteristic i.e. anger is given to a non-human object i.e. clouds.

3. They knew they could feel the joyful sadness on his arrival. (Oxymoron)

• In this figure of speech two opposing terms are brought together in what at first sight appears to be an impossible combination.

4. It has been ages that I have had a proper meal. (Hyperbole)

• Hyperbole refers to overstatement or exaggeration but with the purpose of expressing the truth.

5. The robber ran faster than the lightning. (Hyperbole)

6. Purple pandas painted portraits. (Alliteration)

• when the initial consonant sounds of a syllable are repeated it is called alliteration.

7. My brother was just released from the big house. (Metonymy)

• In this figure of speech the name of a thing is replaced by the name of an attribute of it or something else closely associated with it.
• Here the big house refers to the prison.

8. Uncertain rustling of each purple curtain. (Consonance)

• The repetition of of final consonant sounds is referred to as consonance.
• Uncertain and curtain

9. "How nice!" she said, when I told her I had to work all weekend. (Irony)

• This is a term with a range of meanings all of which involve a discrepancy what is said and what is meant.

10. Go and get three bottles of coke for all. (Alliteration)

11. So I sit spinning still, round this decaying form, the fine threads of rare and subtle thought. (Metaphor)

12. O, Captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done. (Metaphor)

13. My dear, you have all of my heart. (Symbol)

• A literary symbol is something that means more than what it is.
• Here heart is the symbol of love.

14. As shines the moon in clouded skies. She in her poor attire was seen. (Simile)

• Simile compares things that are essentially different in an explicit manner by using word or phrase such as, 'like', 'as', 'than' etc.

15. Authority forgets a dying king. (Personification)