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As cool as a cucumber (PHRASE):
Meaning:
1. Untroubled by heat or exertion.
2. Calm and relaxed.

If someone is as cool as a cucumber, they are very relaxed, calm, and unemotional.
Ex: She was as cool as a cucumber.
A simile is a figure of speech in which two essentially dissimilar objects or concepts are expressly compared with one another through the use of “like” or “as.”
So, the Simile is: As cool as a cucumber.

Metaphor is an implicit comparison between two different things. A metaphor is a figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren't alike but do have something in common.
Ex:
- Her tears were a river flowing down her cheeks.
- She's a tiger when she's angry

Simile is an explicit comparison between two different things. Usually 'as' and 'like' are used in Simile.
For example:
- “He eats like a bird,”
- “He is as smart as a whip,” etc.

[Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman, Britannica, merriam-webster ]

Alliteration is a term to describe a literary device in which a series of words begin with the same consonant sound.
In the given sentence, 'bake big birthday' start with sound 'b'.
So, alliteration is used here.

Blank verse: an iambic pentameter verse lines without rhyme at the end.
An iambic pentameter line is a verse line of five iambic feet. In blank verse, the last word of a line does not rhyme with the last word of any of the successive lines.
Poets and dramatists use blank verse to avoid the monotony of traditional rhyme schemes, to use a wide variety of different tones, to add elegance and to match the heroic or elevated voice.
[Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Britannica]

Allusion is an implicit or indirect reference to another work of literature, a historical or mythical person or event.
Examples:
- ‘The winged boy I knew;
 But who wast thou, O happy, happy dove?’
(Keats: “Ode to Psyche”)
The “winged boy” is an allusion to Cupid, the god of love.
- ''Not half so fixed the Trojan could remain,
While Anna begged and Dido raged in vain'' is another example of allusion.
(Pope: The Rape of the Lock)

Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr. M Mofizar Rahman.

- Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Sir Thomas More 
'Utopia' রচনা করে 'Thomas More' বিখ্যাত হয়ে আছেন। 
- এটি রচনার কাল ১৫১৬ খ্রিস্টাব্দ। 
- তিনি 'Utopia' লিখেছেন ল্যাটিন ভাষায়। 
- 'Utopia' গ্রিক অর্থ হচ্ছে কোথাও না।  অর্থাৎ কোথাও কোনোদিন যা ছিল না।

[ উৎস: ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের ইতিহাস , ড. শীতল ঘোষ, goodreads.com]

Irony is a literary device in which contradictory statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true.
Thus, the answer is irony.

- Comedy is one of the earliest form of dramas as Aristotle talked about it in his famous work Poetics.
- Comedy is intended to amuse the audience with humorous characters and situations but to also bring their follies and vices to light.
- The happy ending of comedies makes it different from other types of dramas.
- Therefore, from above given points we can infer that a form of drama that is intended to amuse and that ends happily is 'Comedy.'

Sonnets are fourteen lines poems divided into octet and sestet.
Octet means eight lines and sestet means six lines.
These were popular in Italian and were later introduced in English by Sir Thomas Wyatt.
In Italy it was made popular by Italian poet Francesco Petrarch.
It's classic rhyme scheme is ABBA ABBA CDE CDE but other variations exist.
Sonnets that use this classic rhyme are called Petrarchan sonnets.
Hence, Petrarchan is a category of sonnet.

'Personification' is a figure of speech.
'Personification' gives human qualities to non living things or ideas.
For example: The wind howled in the night.
My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.
According to the above explanation 'wind' is an example of personification as human quality 'asleep' is being given to wind.
Thus, option 1 will be the correct answer.

Allegory is a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, through symbols. 
Therefore the correct answer here is option 2.

Sonnet:
A lyric poem of fourteen iambic pentameter lines.
It is of three types:
1. Petrarchan
2. Shakespearean and
3. Spenserian.

- The first eight lines of a Petrarchan Sonnet are called octave and the last six lines of it are called the sestet.
- A Shakespearean Sonnet is divided into three quatrains followed by a couplet. The concluding couplet is often used as a comment on the preceding lines.
- The Spenserian sonnet is named after Edmund Spenser who developed a different rhyme scheme for his sonnet. Like a Shakespearean sonnet, it consists of three quatrains followed by a couplet but the rhyme scheme differs from that of Shakespearean.

[Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman]

A narrative poem that tells a story through dialogue and action is called ballad.

Ballad is mainly of two types:
 - The Folk or Popular balled; and
 - The Literary Ballad.

[Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman.]

Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement or an extreme overstatement.
Example of hyperbole:
- 'Ten thousand saw I at a glance' (The Daffodils, William Wordsworth). 
- "Ay sir, to be honest as this world goes, is to be one man pick'd out of two thousand." is an example of- Hyperbole.

[Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman]