Question

Q. Read the given line and answer the questions that follow:
“Go to sleep, pet: you’ll forget all about it in the morning. I tried to explain to father, but he was too upset to listen tonight.” i. Who is the speaker of the given lines? ii. Who does ‘you’ refer to in the given lines? iii. What incident does ‘it’ refer to? iv. What impact did the incident have on the little girl?

Story :- The little girl​

Answer 1

(i) Grandmother is the speaker of the given lines.

(ii) kezia refers to 'you' in these lines.

(iii) it refers to about the beating that she had got from her father.

(iv) the incident affected the girl so much she was crying too much , she lay in the shadowed room watching the evening light make a sad little pattern on the floor.