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Chapter 16 – The Duck and the Kangaroo (Poem) Solutions

Question - 1 : -
Taking words that come at the end of lines, write five pairs of rhyming words. Read each pair aloud.
For example: pond-beyond

Answer - 1 : -

hop-stop; Duck-luck; back-quake; bold-cold; rocks-socks,

Question - 2 : -
Complete the dialogue.
Duck : Dear Kangaroo! Why don’t you ………..
Kangaroo: With pleasure, my dear Duck, though………………..
Duck: That won’t be a problem. I will…………..

Answer - 2 : -

Duck: Dear Kangaroo! Why don’t you take me on a ride on your back!
Kangaroo : With pleasure, my dear Duck though your feet are unpleasantly wet.
Duck : That won’t be a problem. I will wear worsted socks and a cloak.

Question - 3 : -
The Kangaroo does not want to catch ‘rheumatism’. Spot this word in stanza 3 and say why it is spelt differently. Why is it in two parts ? Why does the second part begin with a capital letter?

Answer - 3 : -

Roo-Matiz is written to give similarity to ‘rheumatism’. To give the rhyme of Kangaroo in the second line, ‘roo’ has been written in the first line. The second part is the first alphabet of a new line in poetry, so it is written with a capital letter.

Question - 4 : -
Do you find the poem humorous ? Read aloud lines that make you laugh.

Answer - 4 : -

The poem is called humorous in the manner of text and talking.
The following lines make us laugh:
(i) Your feet are unpleasantly wet and cold
And would probably give me the Roo-Matiz!
(ii) And I bought four pairs of worsted socks
(iii) And everyday a cigar I’ll smoke………
(iv) …… sit steady, and quite at the end of my tail!

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