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06/02/2021 6:51 pm
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Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and feared like a pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon’s mouth.
(а) What is the soldier ready to do?
(b) What is the poetic device used in the second line?
(c) What does ‘bubble reputation’ mean?
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06/02/2021 6:52 pm
(a) The solider is ready to die for name and fame.
(b) It is a simile.
(c) It means that reputation is as short-lived as the life of a bubble.