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AssignmentMultiple Choice

Contemporary Poetry: Seamus Heaney’s “Digging”

Question 5 • CA-English Language Arts 12 B – 1744

Which statement best describes the effects of assonance in the passage?

Answer
A
The assonance connects the work of digging to the pleasure of holding the potatoes.
B
The assonance makes the poem sound choppy and disjointed.
C
The assonance draws attention to the speaker’s dislike of the countryside.
D
The assonance creates a link between the speaker’s writing and his father’s farming.
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