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GATE 2022 XH2 (English) – Question 36

Literary Forms, Genres, and Modes of Expression · Aesthetic and Rhetorical Strategies: Narrative and poetic techniques, and figures of speech · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Which of the following terms does not form a part of seven types of ambiguities propounded by William Empson?

  1. Simulacra
  2. Metaphor
  3. Pun
  4. Simile

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Correct answer: (A) Simulacra

Explanation

Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity discusses metaphor, pun and similar devices. “Simulacra” is a term of Baudrillard's later theory and has no place in it.