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Excerpted from "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickinson [2] And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard— And sore must be the storm— That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm— [3] I've heard it in the chillest land— And on the strangest Sea— Yet, never, in Extremity, It asked a crumb—of Me. In the second line of the second stanza, Dickenson writes “and sore must be the storm.”

Then in the second line of the third stanza, she writes, “And on the strangest sea.”

Which language device employs repeating consonant sounds such as s?

A.assonance
B.consonance
C.alliteration
D.symbolism

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the answer is c alliteration

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I did the test, its

C) Alliteration

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