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Contemporary Poetry: Seamus Heaney’s “Digging”

Question 1 • LVA-English Language Arts 12 -SPRING

Which lines from the poem use alliteration? Check all that apply.“My father, digging. I look down”“Bends low, comes up twenty years away”“The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft”“He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep”“Once I carried him milk in a bottle”“Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods”

Answer
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“My father, digging. I look down”
B
“Bends low, comes up twenty years away”
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“The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft”
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“He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep”
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“Once I carried him milk in a bottle”
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“Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods”
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