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Vocabulary MCQs with Answers

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Question 1

Out of the four given alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word: RISQUÉ

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Question 2

Name the figure of speech in the following:

He was a learned man among lords, and a lord among learned men.

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Question 3

Name the figure of speech in the following:

Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And in dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

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Question 4

Name the figure of speech in the following:

Brave Macbeth, with his brandished steel, carved out his passage.

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Question 5

Name the figure of speech in the following:

We had nothing to do, and we did it very well.

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Question 6

Name the figure of speech in the following:

And thou, Dalhousie, the great god of war
Lieutenant-Colonel to the Earl of Mar.

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Question 7

Name the figure of speech in the following:

The Puritan had been rescued by no common deliverer from the gasp of no common foe.

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Question 8

Figures of speech:

Which of the following statements is not an example of epigram ?

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Question 9

Figures of speech:

Which of the following statement is an example of metaphor ?

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Question 10

Figures of speech:

Which of the following statements is an example of metonymy?

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