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 this book's author is markus zuzak.

    The Fair Breeze Blew, the white Foam Flew,

        The Furrow Followed Free;
   
    We were the First that ever Burst
       
        Into that Silent Sea.            from" the rime of the ancient Mariner" by samuel taylor Coleridge.

   As you read Coleridge's lines, did you hear the repeated f, s, and b sounds? you can see and hear them in the words fair , foam, flew, furrow, followed, and free and in the words silent and sea and breeze, blew and burst. this technique is called alliteration.