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Read the following lines carefully. 

If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass, 

And some highway happier make; 

If you can’t be a muskie then just be a bass 

But the liveliest bass in the lake! (Be The Best of Whatever You Are) 

Now, answer the following questions. 

1. How should we be if we can’t be a bush?

2. Which makes the highway happier?

3. Which word in these lines refer to ‘a big fish’?

4. Which is important? 

(a) a bush 

(b) a bit of grass 

(c) both

5. What figure of speech is used in ‘And some highway happier make’?

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1. We should be a bit of the grass.

2. Grass

3. Muskie

4. (c) both

5. The figure of speech used in this line is alliteration. Alliteration is the repetition of a consonant sound in the beginning of consecutive words. In the given line the words ‘ highway, happier’ are alliterative with the repetition in the consonant sound of the phoneme.

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