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<span>What purpose did the use of alliteration and rhyme serve in the ballads from the Anglo-Saxon era?
A. They made it easier to remember the words of the ballads, which were recited. </span>
I believe that the answer to the question provided above is that <span>besides the man in the water who are the three other heroes and what does each one do.</span>
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