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Read the lines from the poem and answer the following.

He is very very like me.
From the heels up to the head!

(i) Who does he refer to?

(ii) Who does me refer to?

(iii) Why are he and me alike?

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Solution

(i) He refers to the shadow.

(ii) Me refers to the poet.

(iii) He and me are alike because they look exactly like each other.

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