ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

JAMES JOYCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
North Richmond Street, being blind, 1 was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two stories stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbors in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces. In describing the setting for the story in the first paragraph, Joyce makes use of which form of figurative language?
A
hyperbole
B
metaphor
C
personification
D
simile
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbors in a square ground.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the short story “Araby", James Joyce describes the North Richmond Street being “blind". The word blind dictionary meaning is sightless, or unable to see. The street being blind means the street seems like nobody lives there and quiet.

Detailed explanation-3: -North Richmond Street is described metaphorically and presents the reader with his first view of the boy’s world. The street is “blind"; it is a dead end, yet its inhabitants are smugly complacent; the houses reflect the attitudes of their inhabitants.

Detailed explanation-4: -Definitions of blind alley. a street with only one way in or out. synonyms: cul de sac, dead-end street, impasse. type of: thoroughfare. a public road from one place to another.

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