Read the excerpt from Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare. If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!Now read the excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. What does the phrase “dying fall” most likely mean in both excerpts?
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The sounds are too loud.In both excerpts, “dying fall” describes a sound that gently diminishes or fades away. In Twelfth Night, the speaker compares the music to a soft breath moving over violets, suggesting a fading, delicate sound. In Prufrock, “voices dying” beneath music from another room also suggests that the voices are fading into the distance. Therefore, “the sounds are fading” is the best answer.
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