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Question
Choose the correct Figure of speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall ______.
Options
Personification
Alliteration
Hyperbole
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Solution
Alliteration: Repetition of the sound of the letter ‘s’
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