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Unit 6 · Language and Linguistics English · June 2022 (Shift 1)

Match List I with List II:

List I: LinesList II: Device
A. Pope: 'Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike'I. Irony
B. Austen: 'It is a truth universally acknowledged…'II. Simile
C. Keats: 'Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness'III. Antithesis
D. Coleridge: 'And ice, mast-high, came floating by, / As green as emerald'IV. Assonance

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Correct answer: A. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

Explanation

Pope's portrait of Atticus; the ironic opening of Pride and Prejudice; the long 'i' sounds of the Grecian Urn; the Mariner's simile.

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