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I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you — Nobody — too? Then there’s a pair of us Don’t tell! they’d advertise — you know! How dreary — to be — Somebody! How public — like a Frog — To tell one’s name — the livelong June — To an admiring Bog! Which technique does Dickinson use to make the ends of lines 1 and 2 sound similar? rhyme imagery controlling image alliteration

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The first line ends with "you" and the second line ends with "too". These two words, "you" and "too" rhyme. Thus the poet Emily Dickinson uses rhyme to end lines 1 and 2.
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The answer to the question is rhyme. Line 1 of the poem is "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" Line 2 of the poem is "Are you - Nobody - too?" To make the lines sound similar, Dickinson is using the poetic technique know as rhyme by using the words "you" and "too."
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