Question

select the correct text in the passage. read emily dickinsons \twas later when the summer went.\ which two lines contain examples of alliteration? twas later when the summer went than when the cricket came, and yet we knew that gentle clock meant nought but going home. twas sooner when the cricket went than when the winter came, yet that pathetic pendulum keeps esoteric time.

Explanation:

Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words. In the given poem, "Than when the cricket came" has the repetition of the 'c' sound in "cricket came". "Yet that pathetic pendulum" has the repetition of the 'p' sound in "pathetic pendulum".

Answer:

Than when the cricket came, Yet that pathetic pendulum