Question

Read the excerpt from Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare. If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! Now read the excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. What does the phrase “dying fall” most likely mean in both excerpts? The noise is jarring. The noise is soothing. The sounds are fading. The sounds are too loud.

Answer 1

Answer: The sounds are fading.

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Answer 2

Answer: The sounds are fading.

Step-by-step explanation:

The phrase “dying fall” most likely mean in both excerpts that the sounds are fading.

In the excerpt, Shakespeare suggested that the music is fading as his love is being drowned by it. The second excerpt explains how the voices are fading as well.