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It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. Take from our world what they have given and all
the niches would fall empty, all the walls naked -meaning and connection would fall from words of poetry and fiction, music
would go back to common air, and all the forms of subtle and enchanting Art would lose proportion and become the
unmeaning waste and shattered spoils of thoughtless chance.
Q1 : Find from the options given below an antonymous phrase for "hard to overstate"
(a) difficult to overstate
(b) difficult to understate
(c) easy to overstate
(d) easy to understate
Q2 :What in essence have the men and women of genius given us as per the above passage?
(a) poetry, fiction and music
(b) meaning and connection
(c) all forms of Art
(d) thoughtless chance
Q3 : Meaning and connection would fall from the words of poetry and fiction, when
(a) niches would become empty
(b) walls would become naked
(c) Art would lose proportion
(d) the gifts of genius be lost
Q4 :Identify the figures of speech contained in the following phrase "the unmeaning waste and shattered spoils of
thoughtless chance"
(a) personification, alliteration, metaphor
(b) paradox, simile, transferred epithet
(c) personification, alliteration, simile
(d) paradox, metaphor, transferred epithet
Q5 :From the options provided, select an appropriate title for the above passage
(a) Shattered Spoils of Chance
(b) Role of Chance
(c) Gifts of Genius
(d) Invaluable Role of Art
the niches would fall empty, all the walls naked -meaning and connection would fall from words of poetry and fiction, music
would go back to common air, and all the forms of subtle and enchanting Art would lose proportion and become the
unmeaning waste and shattered spoils of thoughtless chance.
Q1 : Find from the options given below an antonymous phrase for "hard to overstate"
(a) difficult to overstate
(b) difficult to understate
(c) easy to overstate
(d) easy to understate
Q2 :What in essence have the men and women of genius given us as per the above passage?
(a) poetry, fiction and music
(b) meaning and connection
(c) all forms of Art
(d) thoughtless chance
Q3 : Meaning and connection would fall from the words of poetry and fiction, when
(a) niches would become empty
(b) walls would become naked
(c) Art would lose proportion
(d) the gifts of genius be lost
Q4 :Identify the figures of speech contained in the following phrase "the unmeaning waste and shattered spoils of
thoughtless chance"
(a) personification, alliteration, metaphor
(b) paradox, simile, transferred epithet
(c) personification, alliteration, simile
(d) paradox, metaphor, transferred epithet
Q5 :From the options provided, select an appropriate title for the above passage
(a) Shattered Spoils of Chance
(b) Role of Chance
(c) Gifts of Genius
(d) Invaluable Role of Art
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