App Logo

No.1 PSC Learning App

1M+ Downloads
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty". The figure of speech used here is.................

Asimile

Bsynecdoche

Cmetaphor

Dhyperbole

Answer:

C. metaphor

Read Explanation:

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty." The figure of speech used here is metaphor.

In this line, from John Keats' poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, "beauty" and "truth" are equated with each other without using "like" or "as," which is characteristic of a metaphor. The statement suggests that beauty and truth are one and the same, offering a profound philosophical idea.


Related Questions:

The meaning of the phrasal verb 'run out' is
We should not........ the poor?
I can always ............. my friends in a crisis.
The manager is very rude. They cannot _____ his behaviour.
He ……. the task entrusted to him.