A. metaphor
B. simile
C. personification
D. none of the above
Related Mcqs:
- The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as_____________?
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. personification
D. none of the above - What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness,a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
A. wit
B. sprezzatura
C. naturalism
D. gusto - What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
A. wit
B. sprezzatura
C. naturalism
D. gusto - Unlike the gods and goddesses of classical epics, John Milton’s God in “Paradise Lost” is and____________?
A. visible, inaccessible
B. inaccessible, omnipresent
C. nonexistent, invisible
D. invisible, omnipresent - Complete the following sentence. Unlike many Enlightenment thinkers, Adam Smith and Rousseau_____________?
A. traveled to America.
B. believed in God.
C. emphasized the importance of human emotions as guiding behavior.
D. rejected Newton’s view of the universe. - ______________involves a different analysis of the structure of the word by attaching a consonant at the end of a word or a vowel at the beginning of the next word ?
A. Portmanteau
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Clipping
D. Met analysis - The substitution of the aspirated /k/ for the un__aspirated /k/ in the word ‘sky’ does not alter the meaning of the worD. It is an instance of ______________ ?
A. Complementary distribution
B. Contrastive distribution
C. Non__complementary distribution
D. None of the above - The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ?
A. Lacking in freshness and originality
B. Saddened
C. Double meaning
D. Blue-eyed - Arnold summarises the rule of English criticism in one word, in The Function Of Criticism. What is the word ?
A. Disintrestedness
B. Intresedness
C. Purification
D. Civilization - Wordsworth described all good poetry as______________?
A. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition
B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the polite patter of a corrupted age
D. the divine gift of grace
