‘The fair breeze blew
The white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.’
The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is
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alliteration
- repetition
- paradox
- rhyme scheme
The correct answer is: A
Explanation
Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds within a line of poem.
line 1 /b/ 'breeze' and 'blew'
line 2 /f/ 'foam' and 'flew'
line 3 /f/ ' furrow', 'followed' and 'free'
line 4 /w/ 'we' and 'were'
line 5 /s/ 'silent' and 'sea'
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