MCQs on Uncommon Poetic Devices for WB ENGLISH SLST 2025

mock set of MCQs on uncommon poetic devices (like the WB SLST exam might ask).

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🌟 MCQs on Uncommon Poetic Devices

Q1. Identify the figure of speech: “The crown will decide the nation’s future.”

a) Synecdoche

b) Metonymy

c) Apostrophe

d) Chiasmus

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Q2. “O Death, where is thy sting?” is an example of—

a) Apostrophe

b) Oxymoron

c) Paradox

d) Enjambment

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Q3. In “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (Shakespeare), the figure of speech is—

a) Zeugma

b) Chiasmus

c) Antithesis

d) Polyptoton

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Q4. “He stole my heart and my wallet.” → Which device?

a) Zeugma

b) Irony

c) Litotes

d) Metonymy

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Q5. “This is not an unkind remark.” → Which device?

a) Hyperbole

b) Litotes

c) Oxymoron

d) Paradox

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Q6. “Here comes the sun.” → Which device is used in word order?

a) Apostrophe

b) Inversion

c) Synecdoche

d) Anaphora

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Q7. In “O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being!” (Shelley), the device is—

a) Personification

b) Apostrophe

c) Alliteration

d) Hyperbole

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Q8. “The child is father of the man.” → This is a—

a) Paradox

b) Oxymoron

c) Epistrophe

d) Synecdoche

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Q9. “To err is human || to forgive, divine.” The mid-line pause is called—

a) Caesura

b) Enjambment

c) Ellipsis

d) Epistrophe

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Q10. “Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds.” (Shakespeare, Sonnet 116). Repetition of the root word alter is—

a) Alliteration

b) Polyptoton

c) Anaphora

d) Refrain

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✅ Answer Key

1 → b) Metonymy

2 → a) Apostrophe

3 → b) Chiasmus

4 → a) Zeugma

5 → b) Litotes

6 → b) Inversion

7 → b) Apostrophe

8 → a) Paradox

9 → a) Caesura

10 → b) Polyptoton