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  Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.                            (1x3=3) Day by day the nightingale Grew more sorrowful and pale Night on night her tired song Zipped and trilled and bounced along Till the birds and beasts grew tired At a voice so uninspired (a) What made the nightingale sorrowful and pale? (b) What does the word 'trilled' mean? (c) Why did the birds and beasts grow tired?  

Answer:

    (a) Too much singing and humiliation by the frog made the nightingale sorrowful and pale. (b) Trilled means a repeated high sound. (c) They grew tired of the nightingale's uninspired song.