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    COMPREHENSION
    Directions : In this section you have TWO short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First, read a passage and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author only.

    Passage — I
    What is fruth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in  thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be  not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty   and labour, which men take in finding out of truth, nor again, that when it is found, it imposeth upon man's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favour; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchants; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell; this same truth, is a naked, and open day-light, that doth not show the  masks, and mummeries, and triumphs, of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond, or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?


    What literary device does the author use when he says, "truth is naked" ?

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    2023 CDS -2 English

    symbolism

    Incorrect Answer

    personification

    Correct Answer

    allegory

    Incorrect Answer

    paradox

    Incorrect Answer
    Explanation:

    - In the phrase "truth is naked," the author uses a literary device to express the idea that truth is exposed, plain, and unadorned.

    - Option 1: Symbolism - This is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. While "naked" does symbolize exposure, it's not the primary device here because it's about describing truth in a human-like state.

    - Option 2: Personification - This involves giving human attributes to non-human things. The adjective "naked" describes a characteristic typically associated with people, which is applied to truth.

    - Option 3: Allegory - This is a narrative that involves characters and events that symbolize ideas, often to convey a deeper message. This doesn't fit because the statement isn't telling a story with symbolic meaning.

    - Option 4: Paradox - This is a self-contradictory statement that may reveal a truth. The phrase isn't contradictory, so this doesn't apply.

    Answer: Option 2 - Personification refers to treating truth as if it has human qualities, hence, saying "naked" is an example of this device.

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