Rhetorical Devices in Our Casuarina, Examination 2025

 Rhetorical Devices in Our Casuarina, Examination 2025

Question Paper

Subject: English Literature 

Topic: Rhetorical Devices in Our Casuarina Tree – Toru Dutt 

Full Marks: 20

A. Answer all questions.MCQs (Each carries 1 mark)

1. In the line “Like a huge python, winding round and round”, which rhetorical device is used? (a) Personification (b) Metaphor (c) Simile (d) Hyperbole

2. The phrase “O Tree” in the poem is an example of— (a) Apostrophe (b) Alliteration (c) Hyperbole (d) Epigram

3. In “The giant wears the scarf”, what figure of speech is found? (a) Simile (b) Personification (c) Oxymoron (d) Allusion

4. “The grey baboon sits statue-like alone” contains which rhetorical device? (a) Alliteration (b) Simile (c) Metaphor (d) Apostrophe

5. The phrase “the creeper winds round the rugged trunk” is an example of— (a) Hyperbole (b) Metaphor (c) Personification (d) Apostrophe

6. In “It is the tree’s lament, an eerie speech”, which rhetorical device is present? (a) Alliteration (b) Onomatopoeia (c) Personification (d) Epigram

7. The repetition of ‘dear’ in “Dear is the Casuarina to my soul” is an example of— (a) Alliteration (b) Repetition (c) Epigram (d) Hyperbole

8. The line “My spirit clasps thy trunk” contains— (a) Personification (b) Apostrophe (c) Metaphor (d) Allusion

9. “May Love defend thee from Oblivion’s curse” is an example of— (a) Apostrophe & Personification (b) Simile (c) Allusion (d) Oxymoron

10. In “Beneath it we have played”, the poet uses— (a) Hyperbole (b) Metaphor (c) Personal reminiscence (rhetoric of memory) (d) Alliteration

Set-2

1. Identify the figure of speech in the line:

“Like a huge python, winding round and round.”

a) Simile

b) Metaphor

c) Personification

d) Hyperbole

2. The phrase “giant weariness” in the poem is an example of—

a) Alliteration

b) Metaphor

c) Oxymoron

d) Transferred Epithet

3. In the line—“A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound”—the figure of speech is:

a) Simile

b) Metaphor

c) Personification

d) Apostrophe

4. The expression “Your beauty in it, O Tree” is an example of:

a) Hyperbole

b) Apostrophe

c) Oxymoron

d) Simile

5. Identify the figure of speech in—

“Birds sing and children sport beneath thy shade.”

a) Personification

b) Synecdoche

c) Hyperbole

d) Alliteration

6. “Dear is the Casuarina to my soul” is an example of—

a) Apostrophe

b) Personification

c) Hyperbole

d) Metaphor

7. In the line—“May Love defend thee from Oblivion’s curse”—the figure of speech used is:

a) Apostrophe & Personification

b) Simile

c) Alliteration

d) Hyperbole

8. The use of the sound pattern in—“fear, forlorn, friend, fade”—is an example of:

a) Alliteration

b) Assonance

c) Consonance

d) Onomatopoeia

9. “The giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hung.” Here “giant” refers to the tree. Which figure of speech is this?

a) Simile

b) Metaphor

c) Personification

d) Oxymoron

10. The line—“Unto thy honor, Tree, beloved of those / Who now in blessed sleep for aye repose”—contains:

a) Apostrophe

b) Hyperbole

c) Personification

d) Allusion

Answer