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past year questions, CUET English 2026 29 May Shift 2

Literary Devices

past year questions, Verbal Ability, CUET English 2026 29 May Shift 2

Medium

Read the given lines and correctly identify the figure of speech used:

"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand? No this my hand will render

The multitudinious seas incarnadine,

Making the green one red.

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 2

Neptune is the Roman god of the sea, so naming him is an allusion. The claim that one hand could turn all the seas red is a deliberate exaggeration, that is, hyperbole. The lines contain no contradiction in terms and no substitution of an associated name, so oxymoron and metonymy do not apply.

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