Choose the sentences that are correct examples of **Hyperbole** and **Oxymoron**: A. The smell of burnt food will not clear out even if we spray all the perfumes from Arabia. B. There was a defeaning silence in the auditorium. C. The stage was filled with talented faces. D. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:

Question

Option 1: A and B

Option 2: C and D

Option 3: B and C

Option 4: A and D

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	LIST-II (Examples)
I.	Dearth dwells in every nook and cranny of the slums.
II.	The fair, funny, fragile looking waif.
III.	Malicious words are like bullets that tear through you.
IV.	The husband's cruel desertion broke her heart into smithereens.

List-I (Phrase)	List-II (Figures of Speech)
(A) 'His honor rooted in dishonor stood'	(I) Apostrophe
(B) 'O Death, where is thy sting?'	(II) Synecdoche
(C) 'The fair breeze blew. The white foam flew'	(III) Oxymoron
(D) 'All hands on deck!'	(IV) Alliteration

	LIST-I (Figures of speech)
A.	Hyperbole
B.	Simile
C.	Personification
D.	Alliteration

CUET English 2026 31st May Shift 1 PYQs

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