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a)Rhyme pay day
grief relief
end friend
release peace
bought thought
best interest
b)The tone should bring out sorrow,desperation as well as resignation .The tone is likely to be solemn or sombre or poignant.
c)
-The dash represents a significant pause, creates suspense because it is not easy to anticipate what the persona will say next.
- The comma is a short pause which gives the speaker time to catch his or her breath.
-The full stop is a final punctuation mark and in this stanza, it seems to tell us that the speaker's fate is sealed , final.There seems to be no possibility for appeal ironically, only death will bring some relief
d)
- The last line of the poem would be said to be in a voice that expresses surprise or even shock at the realizatin of the pride the person has to pay.Perhaps the voice would be raised, the eye wide open and words "God" and "Interest" articulated with a lot of emphasis.
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