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past year questions, CUET English 2026 14 May Shift 2

Literary Devices

past year questions, Verbal Ability, CUET English 2026 14 May Shift 2

Easy

Fill in the blank by selecting the most appropriate option to complete the figure of speech, oxymoron:

The deafening ______ in the house after everybody was gone, made her cry.

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 2

An oxymoron joins two contradictory terms. 'Deafening' implies overwhelming loudness, so pairing it with 'silence' creates the contradiction: deafening silence. 'Noise' and 'sounds' agree with 'deafening' rather than contradict it, and 'profundity' creates no such contrast.

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