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Question
Write two lines from this poem which you find most humorous. Justify your choice.
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Solution
- Does the needle ever wink its eye?
The thought that putting the thread through its eye will make it wink is funny. - Why doesn't the wing of a building fly?
Because imagining a building flying with its wings is funny.
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