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Read the following lines from the poem and answer the questions given below.
The Grumble Family Poem Figure of Speech Question 1. There’s a family nobody likes to meet;
They live, it is said, on Complaining Street
(a) Where does the family live?
(b) Why do you think the street is named as ‘Complaining Street’?
Answer:
(a) The family lives in Complaining Street.
(b) The street is named as Complaining Street because a family which is never satisfied lives there.
2. They growl at that and they growl at this;
whatever comes, there is something amiss;
(a) What does the word ‘growl’ mean here?
(b) Why do they find everything amiss?
Answer:
(a) The word ‘growl’ means shouting or snarling at everything.
(b) They find everything amiss or quite wrong because they are never satisfied with anything. They shout and complain about everything.