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Answer 1
Answer 2
‘Jeewaye Pakistan! Heads up guys until next time’: Pakistani’s support the Green team
after the loss at semi-finals.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1657514/you-remain-our-pride-pakistanis-heartbroken-
yet-full-of-praise-for-green-shirts-after-semi-final-defeat
Answer 3
Humorous headlines:
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundred’s Dead
Chef Throws His Heart into Helping Feed Needy
Second Cup brings a whole latte trouble
Answer 4
Answer 5
Exercise A:
1. A bomb explosion in Moscow terrorizes the people there
2. Prime Minister to reveal plans on how to stop aggressive football fans (from entering
the playing field).
3. A high-ranking member of parliament raising his/her voice alone on a certain issue.
4. A strong campaign against porn has started.
5. A group of thugs attacked a teenage star
6. Police decide to deal with a group of aggressive men during a conflict
Exercise B:
1. C: Use of ‘nudity’ and ‘sensation’ to attract attention, dramatic words
2. B: Humorous-Colloquial word used, ‘Mash-up’
3. E: Hyperbole-Dramatic words and Image words; ‘Marathon Man’ and ‘Drop dead’
4. A: Use of ‘Royalty’ and ‘Sensation’ to attract attention, dramatic words
5. D: Colloquial phrase used, ‘It’s curtains for’
Exercise C:
1. G: Dracula was known for drinking blood. Bad blood is also an expression used to
portray ill feelings between people.
2. E: School days are often referred to as the 'happiest days of one's life’.
3. B: Shell-shocked means traumatized or in a state of great shock. Terrapins have shells
and they would be shocked by falling from such a height.
4. A: Dentists make impressions of teeth and false impressions is a common term used to
mean incorrect impressions created by a person.
5. D: Haunting is what a ghost does. An apparition is a ghost or a ghost-like image of a
person. So, telling the society to stop scaring the ghost is a humorous twist.
6. H: Hopping mad is a term that means extremely angry. Toads hop along the ground.
Hopping mad is also how the police felt when they found out they were alerted by a
toad.
7. F: A loo mean a toilet and they flush. It strongly expresses the phrase 'flushed with
success’, as the people who have sold the toilet for such a large amount of money must
be feeling.
8. I: Highly embarrassed is a very common term. It is suitable here as the man who tried to
save his own pet, ended up needing saving himself.
9. C: Sheepdogs round up sheep. Labradors and golden retrievers are kinds of dogs and it