Question

5. Read the stanza and answer the questions that follow: (4×1=4)

But up jumped Custard, snorting like an engine,
Clashed his tail like irons in a dungeon,

With a clatter and a clank and a jangling squirm,

He went at the pirate like a robin at a worm.


(i) Name the poem and the poet.

(ii) Who is ‘He’ in the last line of the stanza?

(iii) How did Belinda and the other creatures behave when the pirate came?

(iv) ‘But up jumped Custard, snorting like an engine’. Which poetic device does the line contain?​

Answer 1

Answer:

i) "The tale of custard the dragon"

the poet is 'Ogden Nash'.

ii)he refers to custard belinda's dragon.

iii)when the pirate came belinda paled and cried help! help!

other creatures went from there and some hide in house and somewhere else.

iv)figures of speech in this line is onomptopia and simile.

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