Read the following poetry excerpt from Rudyard Kipling’s novel, The Jungle Book. Now Rann, the Kite, brings home the night That Mang, the Bat, sets free – The herds are shut in byre and hut, For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. Oh, hear the call! – Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law! Determine which two phrases below from the poem contain alliteration. Select the two correct answers. (1 point) Responses keep the Jungle Law! keep the Jungle Law! the herds are shut the herds are shut talon and tush and claw talon and tush and claw pride and power pride and power brings home the night

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The two phrases from the poem that contain alliteration are:

  1. talon and tush and claw
  2. pride and power

Alliteration is the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words in close proximity. In these phrases, the initial consonant sounds are repeated.

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