ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“He smiles, he laughs and he roars”-this quotation is an example of?
A
Conceit
B
Allusion
C
Climax
D
Satire
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Climax is a figure of speech in which successive words, phrases, clauses, or sentences are arranged in ascending order of importance, as in “Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane!

Detailed explanation-2: -In a movie or book, a climax is the point where, after a long buildup, everything gets really intense and dramatic. But if there’s a lot of buildup and then suddenly something really boring happens, that’s an anticlimax. Like waiting all day to see fireworks, but then nobody has any matches.

Detailed explanation-3: -In rhetoric, a climax (Greek: , klîmax, lit. “staircase” or “ladder") is a figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance. In its use with clauses, it is also sometimes known as auxesis ( lit. “growth").

Detailed explanation-4: -The correct answer is “I wandered lonely as a cloud". Simile means a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.

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