CUET English - Read the following sentence from the given passage carefully and identify the figure of speech used:- Both times the machine went into a controlled frenzy, firing off questions, one after another. | PYQs + Solutions

CUET English 2026 13th May Shift 1

Medium

oxymoron

onomatopoeia

simile

metonymy

✅ Correct Option: 1

Related questions:

5 Aug Shift 1

From the given options, select the one which correctly identifies the figure of speech (poetic device) used in the expression:

Death lays his icy hand on kings

12th May Shift 2

Match the phrases given in List-I with the figure of speech given in List-II

List-I	List-II
(A) An ambassador is an honest man who lies abroad for the welfare of his country.	(I) Antithesis
(B) Death lays his icy hands on kings	(II) Metaphor
(C) Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.	(III) Personification
(D) The painter has left his imprints on the sands of time.	(IV) Pun

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31st May Shift 1

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.

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CUET English 2026 13th May Shift 1 PYQs