Read the excerpt from "The Charge of the Light Brigade." "Forward, the Light Brigade!"Was there a man dismay’d?Not tho’ the soldier knew Some one had blunder’d:Theirs not to make reply,Theirs not to reason why,Theirs but to do and die: Identify the pair of stressed syllables from the excerpt.

In “Theirs not to make reply,” “theirs” and “make” are stressed to give the line its strong rhythmic beat. “But” in “Theirs but to do and die” is not stressed, so “but, die” is not a pair of stressed syllables. The correct choice is “theirs, make.”

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