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Which literary device does the following line employ?
"A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend."
  • GATE XH-C2 - 2023
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Which of the following novel-author combination(s) is/are correct?
  • GATE XH-C2 - 2022
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Prolepsis is the representation or assumption in the present, of a future act or development.
Which of the following is/are instance/s of prolepsis?

  • GATE XH-C2 - 2021
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Study the three examples below:
i) In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the interior ministry of the totalitarian state is called the ‘Ministry of Love’.
ii) In the genre of horror fiction, the reader knows that the killer is hiding in the closet, but the protagonist does not.
iii) “But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.” (William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar)
These are instances of _______
  • GATE XH-C2 - 2021
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