NET English Paper 3 December 2013 Q.55

55. Question Nos. 51 to 55 is based on a poem. Read the poem carefully and pick out the most appropriate answers.

It’s Your Own Fault Of course you can play with them. There’s no harm in them. They are only words. Words alone are certain good, said someone. And someone also said unlike sticks and stones Words will never break your bones. (That is called rhyme. A rhyme is nice to play with too from time to time.) What? They’ve turned nasty? They’ve clawed you and bitten you? Dear me, there’s blood all over the place.And broken bones.They were perfectly tame when I left them. Something they ate might have disagreed with them. You mean you fed them on meaning? No wonder then.
– D.J. Enright

Q.“No wonder then.” Explain.

1. No wonder that the words here begin to mean.
2. No wonder that you now find the words menacing.
3. No wonder that the words find you menacing.
4. No wonder the words still mean and are tame.

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