AILET entrance exam Question Bank Solutions

Name the various Figures of Speech in the following.
Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And in dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

Name the various Figures of Speech in the following.
Brave Macbeth, with his brandished steel, carved out his passage.

Name the various Figures of Speech in the following.
We had nothing to do, and we did it very well.

Name the various Figures of Speech in the following.
And thou, Dalhousie, the great god of war
Lieutenant - Colonel to the Earl of Mar.

Name the various Figures of Speech in the following.
The Puritan had been rescued by no common deliverer from the gasp of no common foe.

For the following word below, a context is provided. From the alternatives given, pick the word or phrase that is closest in meaning in the given context.
Alphanumeric: The inclusion of alphanumeric features in cellular phones has made sending SMSs very convenient.

For the following word below, a context is provided. From the alternatives given, pick the word or phrase that is closest in meaning in the given context.
Oligarchy: Mrigank argued that all political parties, including those which profess democratic values become the instruments of their leaders who eventually become a self-interested and self-satisfied oligarchy.

For the following word below, a context is provided. From the alternatives given, pick the word or phrase that is closest in meaning in the given context. 
Perestroika: In the 1980’s, the “state socialist” tradition became totally discredited as Gorbachev’s programme of perestroika revealed the fundamental failures of the planned economies of the Communist bloc.

For the following word below, a context is provided. From the alternatives given, pick the word or phrase that is closest in meaning in the given context. 
Bequeath: In consequences, they bequeathed to their followers no clear vision of the economics of socialism, that is state ownership and planning the means of production, distribution and exchange, and others had to advocate market socialism, the state regulation of capital rather than state ownership of planning.

For the following word below, a context is provided. From the alternatives given, pick the word or phrase that is closest in meaning in the given context. 
Redundancy: Communication is a subtle, complex and continuously fluctuating process, affected by a multitude of factors both external and internal, and two such elements are noise and redundancy.

Stay away from the touristy Pioneer Square historic district and most of its cheeseball clubs, at least on nights and weekends.
Choose the meaning of the word cheeseball.

She's also an up-and-coming fiction writer with a penchant for the dark and surreal.
Choose the meaning of the word surreal.

In which of the following clusters, all the words mean 'lgnoring existence of God'

Choose the sentence (s) which is/ are punctuated correctly. 

1. Our daughter will be three years old next week.
2. Our son will be two-years-old next week.
3. Our two-year-old is starting to talk.
4. Our two year old is starting to talk.

Choose the sentence (s) which is/ are punctuated correctly. 

1. Jan asked; “What did Joe mean when he said, ‘I will see you later.'"
2. Jan asked, “What did Joe mean when he said, ‘I will see you later?""
3. Jan asked, “What did Joe mean when he said, ‘I will see you later?"
4. Jan asked, “What did Joe mean when he said, ‘I will see you later'?”

Choose the sentence (s) which is/ are punctuated correctly.

1. You are my friend; however, I cannot afford to lend you any more money.
2. Truly, a popular error has as many lives as a cat: it comes walking in, long after you have imagined it effectually strangled.
3. There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
4. There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish; the slavery of caste.

Choose the sentence (s) which is/ are punctuated correctly.

1. Yes, Jagrit, you were right about that answer.
2. Yes Jagrit, you were right about that answer.
3. I saw our town’s ex-Mayor Prakash Kumar in the mall.
4. I saw our town’s ex-mayor in the market.

Choose the sentence (s) which is/ are punctuated correctly.

1. As Caesar loved me, I wept for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but as he was ambitious, I slew him.
2. Danish, my friend from Chandigarh, Punjab, will join us.
3. Danish, my friend, from Chandigarh, Punjab will join us.
4. As Caesar loved me, I wept for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him: but as he was ambitious I slew him.

Choose the sentence (s) which is/ are punctuated correctly.

1. A liberally sprinkled dose of humour was very much appreciated.
2. Right now I want two things: peace and quiet.
3. Our liberal-minded clergyman managed to unite the entire congregation.
4. Right now I want two things; peace and quiet.

Choose the sentence (s) which is/ are punctuated correctly.

1. It may not be the correct part, but I bet that it works.
2. It may not be the correct part but: I bet that it works.
3. O father! I hear the sound of guns.
4. O Hamlet, speak no more!