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Read the excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

The excerpt is narrated using which literary technique?
simile
dialogue between two characters
allusion
stream of consciousness

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Stream of consciousness.

The lines are an interior monologue—Prufrock's fragmented, self-questioning thoughts—rather than a simile, a two‑person dialogue, or primarily an allusion.