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Read the given lines and answer the questions that follow.

For he’s a fiend in feline, shape, a monster of depravity.

(a) How is the cat described in this line?

(b) Explain the phrase ‘monster of depravity’.

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(a) Macavity is described as a “demon in the shape of a cat”.

(b) Satan is called the master of depravity. T.S. Eliot calls Macavity, the master of depravity. He means that the cat is an embodiment of evil. He is wicked, all the time involved in doing something evil.

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