Question

The Haughty Cat and the Naughty Mouse

A haughty cat and a naughty mouse

Were forced to live in a haunted house

With ghosts and witches flying in and out

A nasty situation, without a doubt.

The cat walked around, its nose in the air,

Across corridors and down the stairs.

The mouse scampered about without a care;

Together they lived this unlikely pair.

The ghosts and witches poked fun at them,

Scared and taunted them again and again.

But the friends didn’t say a thing even when

The ghosts chased away their friend, the hen.

They didn’t say a thing even when

They were harassed and irritated, time and again,

For they were alive and the ghosts were dead

And the witches, well, nobody cared about them.

So tolerant and patient they both were,

The cat and the mouse, that unlikely pair;

While the ghosts screamed loudly on the stairs

And the witches, they hovered in the air.
a) The rhyme scheme in Stanza 1 is ___________________. (1 mark)

(i) AABB (ii) AAAA (iii) ABAB

b) Which of the following could be the purpose of this poem? Tick (✓) the correct

choice. (1 mark)

(i) Entertain, because it’s a funny poem

(ii) Inform, because it teaches us something

(iii) Persuade, because it makes us want to do something

c) The cat and the mouse were harassed and irritated by the ghosts and witches. Pick

out one sentence from the poem that describes the effect this taunting had on them.

(1 mark)

d) The cat and the mouse did not retaliate when they were tormented by the witches

and ghosts. Do you agree with the way they tolerated their tormentors or do you think

they should have done something to get back at them? Explain why you think so in

30–40 words.
please answer this

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Answer 1

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