Question

Which lines from the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove provide an example of alliteration?

“among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant, / who painted herself a present–”
“wildflowers entwining the plaster corset / her spine resides in, that flaming pillar–”
“Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead. / And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting”
“Diego’s / love a skull in the circular window / of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.”

Answer 1

A. “among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant, / who painted herself a present–”

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Answer 2

The meaning of allitertion is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. The first one mkes the most sense. A