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Question
Spot and write any three alliterative phrases or sentences from the poem.
(Alliterative phrases/sentences are those in which the same sound is repeated.)
Solution
- I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance. Sound of 's' and 'g' is repeated.
- I bubble into eddying bays. I babble on the pebble.
Sound of 'b' is repeated. - By many a field and fallow.
Sound of 'f' is repeated.
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