Which line shows the destructive side of words?
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Correct answer: B. 'A blast of burning air or,'
Explanation
The burning blast (with the knife) presents words as dangerous.
Note: Passage I is Kamala Das's poem 'Words' (Summer in Calcutta, 1965), which is copyrighted and not reproduced. It opens 'All round me are words, and words and words'. The words grow on the speaker 'like leaves', out of a silence deep within. She warns herself that words are a nuisance and can be a chasm, a sea with paralysing waves, a blast of burning air, or a knife that cuts a throat, yet they keep growing.
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