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GATE 2025 XH2 (English) – Question 50

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

“I see now that as the fish Scholopidus in the flood Araris at the waxing of the Moon is as white as the driven snow, and at the waning as black as the burnt coal, so Euphues, which at the first increasing of our familiarity, was very zealous is now at the last cast become most faithless.”
The literary device employed in the given quote is ____________.

  1. Euphemism
  2. Euphony
  3. Euphuism
  4. Ekphrasis

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Correct answer: (C) Euphuism

Explanation

The balanced clauses and the elaborate, far-fetched animal comparisons are the euphuistic style of Lyly's Euphues.