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- Question
Alliteration is an example of what?
Options- A. Assonance
- B. Consonance
- C. Tongue twisters
- D. None of the above
- Correct Answer
- Consonance
ExplanationAlliteration is an example of Consonance. Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another in a piece of text.
Example is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
Whereas
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds, sometimes creating end rhymes.
- 1. Choose the correct verb form from those in brackets. The earth _ round the sun.
Options- A. moves
- B. moved
- C. move
- D. None of the above Discuss
- 2. Iteration is most similar in meaning to
Options- A. Ending
- B. Looping
- C. Starting
- D. None of the above Discuss
- 3. The act of violating the sanctity of the church is called Sacrilege.
Options- A. TRUE
- B. FALSE Discuss
- 4. Voice in literary nonfiction refers to
Options- A. description that appeals to the five senses
- B. the overall presence of a personality behind the text
- C. the attitude that the author or narrator has toward the subject or reader
- D. nonfiction that uses elements and devices common in fictional stories Discuss
- 5. Which of the following is an example of a simile?
Options- A. Clouds of vanilla cotton candy floated in the sky.
- B. His stomach rumbled like an approaching train.
- C. She was drowning in a sea of grief.
- D. He was a hurricane in her heart. Discuss
- 6. In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase. Argus eyed
Options- A. A pretence
- B. Flatterer
- C. Short tempered
- D. Observant Discuss
- 7. In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice. I have poured the tea.
Options- A. Pouring of the tea by me has been done.
- B. The tea is being poured by me.
- C. The tea has been poured by me.
- D. The tea pouring was done by myself. Discuss
- 8. In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice. The teachers informed the students that the class had been cancelled.
Options- A. Informing the students that the class is cancelled was done by the teachers.
- B. The class has been cancelled, this the teachers informed the students.
- C. The students were informed by the teachers that the class had been cancelled.
- D. The teachers cancelled the class and informed the students. Discuss
- 9. Frequently used marks of punctuation is
Options- A. Semicolon
- B. Full stop
- C. Comma
- D. apostrophe Discuss
- 10. Synonym of 'Beautiful'?
Options- A. Alluring
- B. Ugly
- C. Disgusting
- D. Loathsome Discuss
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Correct Answer: moves
Explanation:
The earth moves round the sun.
Correct Answer: Looping
Explanation:
Iteration is most similar in meaning to the word repeatation i.e, looping.
Correct Answer: TRUE
Explanation:
The act of violating or misuse of what is regarded as sacred i.e, like the sanctity of the church is called Sacrilege.
Correct Answer: description that appeals to the five senses
Correct Answer: His stomach rumbled like an approaching train.
Explanation:
In the given options, "His stomach rumbled like an approaching train" is an example of Simile.
All the other options are examples of metaphors.
Simile and Metaphor are both figure of speeches in English which are used for comparing things but the only difference is Simile uses LIKE or AS words in comparing and metaphor directly compares without using any words.
Correct Answer: Observant
Correct Answer: The tea has been poured by me.
Correct Answer: The students were informed by the teachers that the class had been cancelled.
Correct Answer: Comma
Explanation:
The comma ( , ) is a punctuation mark in English which is most frequently used.
It is perhaps also the most abused and misused punctuation mark among all.
Correct Answer: Alluring
Explanation:
Beautiful means good looking, having pleasing personality, glamourous, charming.
Synonyms of Beautiful are handsome, attractive, alluring, cute, fair,...
Hence, in the given options Synonym of 'Beautiful' is Alluring.
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