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Which lines in this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" contain alliteration?

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,

Went envying her and me—

Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,

In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee


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For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,

Verified Answer :

B. The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,

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The correct answer is “the angels not half so happy in heaven”.

The lines in the excerpt of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee” that contains alliteration are “the angels not half so happy in heaven”.

In grammar, we understand the term alliteration as the repetition of a sound in the words of a sentence. So in the case of the question, the line “the angels not half so happy in heaven”, the sound of the “h” is repeated three times in the words half, happy, and heaven.

The other options of the question were, a) by the name of Annabel Lee, b) I was a child, she was a child, and c) a wind blew out of a cloud, chilling.