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Read the following lines from the poem and answer the questions that follow

Let me but live my life from year to year, 

With forward face and unreluctant soul;

(a) Pick out the alliterated words in the first line. 

(b) What is the figure of speech used in the second line? 

(c) What do you understand by the words, ‘forward face’? 

(d) With what kind of attitude does the speaker wish to lead his life in the poem,'Life'by Henry Van Dyke?

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(a) ‘Let, live, life’ are the alliterated words in the first line. 

(b) The figure of speech is alliteration, (e.g. forward face) 

(c) The words, ‘forward face’ indicates the courage with which one is ready to face anything in life. 

(d) ’In the poem, ‘Life’ the speaker wishes to lead his life with a forward face and unreluctant soul. Hence the speaker’s attitude is optimistic.

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