GATE 2025 XH2 (English) – Question 49

Literary Forms, Genres, and Modes of Expression · Aesthetic and Rhetorical Strategies: Narrative and poetic techniques, and figures of speech · 2 marks · Multiple choice

“I came to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”
The literary device employed in this line from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is _____.

Chiasmus
Paralipsis
Zeugma
Anaphora

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Correct answer: (B) Paralipsis

Explanation

Antony says he will not praise Caesar and then does exactly that. Paralipsis is mentioning something while claiming not to mention it.