Question

But angry as fire, an eggplant in hot oil, he sputtered and shook: ‘I don’t believe a single man, I know each of you crooks.’ 1. Who is ‘he’ in the above lines? 2. Whom did he refer to as ‘crooks’ and why? 3. Which figure of speech is present in ‘an eggplant in hot oil’​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The tailor

2. The humans are referred as crooks because the tailor stitched the elephant's trunk

3. It means that the elephant was very angry