Read the following extracts carefully, answer the questions given bel

1.	Read the following extracts carefully, answer the questions given below them.The thunderbolt struck him in the midriff like a red- hot cannon-ball upon a Spanish galleon and the sound of drumstick upon an insufficiently stretched drum.(a) What does thunderbolt refer to?(b) Who did it strike?(c) In the simile, what are the two things compared?(d) How is the comparison humorous?(e) What are the sounds referred to?(f) Bring out the humour in this comparison
Answer» (a) The thunderbolt refers to the cricket ball (b) It struck Boone. (c) The cricket ball is compared to a red-hot cannon-ball. (d) A small harmless cricket ball being compared to a dangerous and destructive cannot ball is humorous. (e) The sounds referred to are the sound of thunderbolt and the sound of a drumstick hitting a drum. (f) The sound made when a stick hits the drum is very loud. Comparing that to the sound made by the ball hitting Boone’s stomach is very humorous.

Read the following extracts carefully, answer the questions given below them.The thunderbolt struck him in the midriff like a red- hot cannon-ball upon a Spanish galleon and the sound of drumstick upon an insufficiently stretched drum.(a) What does thunderbolt refer to?(b) Who did it strike?(c) In the simile, what are the two things compared?(d) How is the comparison humorous?(e) What are the sounds referred to?(f) Bring out the humour in this comparison

Answer»

(a) The thunderbolt refers to the cricket ball

(b) It struck Boone.

(d) A small harmless cricket ball being compared to a dangerous and destructive cannot ball is humorous.

(e) The sounds referred to are the sound of thunderbolt and the sound of a drumstick hitting a drum.

(f) The sound made when a stick hits the drum is very loud. Comparing that to the sound made by the ball hitting Boone’s stomach is very humorous.