[hi.shivani]

1) Who used an oxymoron?
a) Sujata b) Reena c) Jai d) Ramola

2) Who used a Pseudonym?
a) Vivek b) Ramola c) William Sydney Porter

3) Who used a maxim?
a) Jai b) O' Henry c) Reena d) Mona

4) Who spurned an acronym?
a) Ramola b) Picasso c) Seema d) O'Henry

5) Who was inarticulate?
a) Reena b) Sujata c) Seema d) Rakesh

6) Who clung to a cliche?
a) Fred b) Mona c) Sujata d) Jai

7) Who became an eponym?
a) Abel Tasman b) None of these c) O' Henry d) William Sydney Porter

8] Who used a perjorative expression?
a) Ramola b) Mona c) Bimal d) Jai

9) Who made an abstract term concrete?
a) Ramola b) Krishna c) Shyam d) Bimal

10) Who unleashed a diatribe?
a) Anita b) Fred c) Mona d) Reena

Phew..!!
Okay puys lets discuss it,put up your answers with approach.
English is the toughest part of FMS paper and should not be overlooked.

[Massy]

Originally Posted by hi.shivani

1) Who used an oxymoron?
a) Sujata b) Reena c) Jai d) Ramola

2) Who used a Pseudonym?
a) Vivek b) Ramola c) William Sydney Porter

4) Who spurned an acronym?
a) Ramola b) Picasso c) Seema d) O'Henry

.

ans 1:
d - Ramola
{ STATEMENT 3 }

ans 2:
c- William Sydney Porter
{ pseudonym means pen name..... O henry}

ans 4 :
c - Seema
{ WHO }

[explorehims]

Originally Posted by sushantgupta

For RAGHAV ,SHIVANI...and others....
last year in RC i attempted 3 RC'S completely out of 5...
and i should'nt say i did all 24 ques correctly....take my accuracy as 80% and assume i did 16-17 correctly...
i got a percentile of 98+ with that...
as for VA i cannot say..since i attempted all 35 QUES... and i got 99+ so u never know a safe bet shud be 10-15 correct answers....

Hey.....

How did u come to know ur %iles?..
I had heard that FMS just gives a list of shortlisted students for GD/PI.

[nanmun]

My take


1) Who used an oxymoron?
a) Sujata b) Reena c) Jai d) Ramola
Answer: d) Ramola

2) Who used a Pseudonym?
a) Vivek b) Ramola c) William Sydney Porter
Answer: c)) William Sydney Porter

3) Who used a maxim?
a) Jai b) O' Henry c) Reena d) Mona
Answer: a) Jai

4) Who spurned an acronym?
a) Ramola b) Picasso c) Seema d) O'Henry
Answer: c) Seema

5) Who was inarticulate?
a) Reena b) Sujata c) Seema d) Rakesh
Answer: d) Rakesh

6) Who clung to a cliche?
a) Fred b) Mona c) Sujata d) Jai
Answer: Sunita?? Who is Fred??

7) Who became an eponym?
a) Abel Tasman b) None of these c) O' Henry d) William Sydney Porter
Answer: a) Abel Tasman

8] Who used a perjorative expression?
a) Ramola b) Mona c) Bimal d) Jai
Answer: b) Mona

9) Who made an abstract term concrete?
a) Ramola b) Krishna c) Shyam d) Bimal
Answer: b) Krishna

10) Who unleashed a diatribe?
a) Anita b) Fred c) Mona d) Reena
Answer: d) Reena

[sayurabh]

1) RAMOLA USED "MEAN MOTHER" both r contradincting words hence this is oxymoron

2) o henry used its penname william sydney porter for a short story that iz pseudnoym

3)jai used the maxim/adage/pithy saying/aphorism that look before u leap

4)semma used who short form/abbre/acronym for world helth org

5)rakesh was unarticlulate/bad speaker/disingenous/shy/diffidence/not overt

6)sujat refused to change she willl be always clungs to old ways she is banal/cliche/trite/over used one thing again and again/humdrum/monotonuous
7)

7)i think this will be none of these eponym means base word there is no base word used

bimal used pejorative expression pelorative means degrading /useless/or of tiny significance/in negative sense

9)krishna gives abstract of the last 5 yrs sales hence that providing summary of sale in brief and o the point

10)reena unleashed a diatribe diatribe means scold/negative sense/abuse/censure

[coolsurd85]

Originally Posted by nanmun

My take


1) Who used an oxymoron?
a) Sujata b) Reena c) Jai d) Ramola
Answer: d) Ramola

2) Who used a Pseudonym?
a) Vivek b) Ramola c) William Sydney Porter
Answer: c)) William Sydney Porter

3) Who used a maxim?
a) Jai b) O' Henry c) Reena d) Mona
Answer: a) Jai

4) Who spurned an acronym?
a) Ramola b) Picasso c) Seema d) O'Henry
Answer: c) Seema

5) Who was inarticulate?
a) Reena b) Sujata c) Seema d) Rakesh
Answer: d) Rakesh

6) Who clung to a cliche?
a) Fred b) Mona c) Sujata d) Jai
Answer: Sunita?? Who is Fred??

7) Who became an eponym?
a) Abel Tasman b) None of these c) O' Henry d) William Sydney Porter
Answer: a) Abel Tasman

8] Who used a perjorative expression?
a) Ramola b) Mona c) Bimal d) Jai
Answer: b) Mona

9) Who made an abstract term concrete?
a) Ramola b) Krishna c) Shyam d) Bimal
Answer: b) Krishna

10) Who unleashed a diatribe?
a) Anita b) Fred c) Mona d) Reena
Answer: d) Reena

Hey
all r rite xcept the two

ans for 8 would be BIMAL (PEJORATIVE=UNFAVOURABLE)

ANS FOR 6 SHULD BE SUJATA

[nanmun]

@sayurabh:

6) Tasmania is taken from the name of the discoverer Abel Tasman.

[nanmun]

Originally Posted by coolsurd85

Hey
all r rite xcept the two

ans for 8 would be BIMAL (PEJORATIVE=UNFAVOURABLE)

ANS FOR 6 SHULD BE SUJATA

Yeah u are right, thanks for correcting me

[hi.shivani]

Can someone give a proper example of "litotes" and "metonymy"?

[sidhantbahl]

I think the ans for the below Q should be (1)...But in the soln of the solved paper, its given (4)...whatsay??
147. "Reena felt queasy and slightly unwell in office
because of the late night party she had attended the night
before:
(1) to be off colour
(2) to be coloured
(3) to be colourless
(4) to be under colour "