(a) Identify the speaker of the above lines. (b) Who does ‘we’ refer to ?

Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :

You must make your public happier :

Give them something, sharper, snappier.

We must aim for better billings.”

(a) Identify the speaker of the above lines.

(b) Who does ‘we’ refer to ?

(c) What must be done for ’better billings’ ?

(d) What trait of the speaker’* character is revealed through the above lines ?

Answer 1

(a) The speaker is the frog.

(b) ‘We’ refers to the frog and the nightingale.

(c) According to frog, for better billings, the nightingale should make her voice sharper and snappier with her songs to attract the audience.

(d) The trait of the speaker'* character revealed through the above lines is that the frog is greedy.