Read the Poem and answer the questions given below it.
The Day the dragons won the Lottery
The day the dragonry won the lottery.
they got staggery, swigger, blottory.
Ziggery - Zoggery, teetery, tottery.
Proudly Swaggery.
Draggery foggery.
Loudly broggery. Rich or What cry?
When the dragonry won the lottery.
Oops! A Snoggery..... oh no nottery!
Just a tenner is all they gottery.
What a colomity ! Sniffery snottery.
This is most certainly not what it bought to be.
Cursery, Sloggery, weepery, watey
Utterly agony, Heckery ! Rottery !
When the drogonary won the lottery.
Questions :
49. What do you think a 'dragonry' is ? (It is made up word.)
50. What exciting event happens in the first verse ?
51. Which words help the reader to sense the dragon's excitement
ing in a 'show off type
Answers
Explanation:
49. I think the dragons are called the dragonry, because It sounds like a group and the suffix (ry), I think means a group. For example machinery is about more than on piece of it. (It also might not because of the word robbery)
50. The exciting event is the first verse is when the dragons won the lottery, and when they were really hyper, jumping and being crazy when they won it.
51. Well, the dragons are bragging loudly (as it says in the poem) while acting crazy (like it shows in the picture, too
The questions have been asked from the poem The day the dragons won the lottery by Charlotte Bronte.
a) In the poem, the dragons are called the dragonary. It is a made up word with the prefix y and It is similar to the other words used such as blottory, ziggery.
b) In the first verse, the exciting event which happens is the dragons winning the lottery. When the dragons won the lottery, they got happy and excited, they started jumping here and there.
c) The words that show dragon's excitement are - lottery, foggery, tottery, Snoggery, Sniffery snottery etc. All the words that end with prefix ry in the poem represent excitement and joy.