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Read the following poem by Emily Dickinson and answer the questions.

Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the culprit–Life!

They and take are examples of .

They and the are examples of .


the options are:

alliteration
consonance
assonance
rhyme

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They and take are examples of assonance.

They and the are examples of alliteration.

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Answer: They and take are examples of assonance, and they and the are examples of alliteration. Assonance is when two or more words repeat the vowel sounds but start with different consonant sounds (in this case, They and take have similar vowel sounds but they start with different consonant sounds "th" and "t"). Alliteration is the repetition of the consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words (in this case the and they both start with the consonant sound "th").

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