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AssignmentMultiple Choice

Literary and Sound Devices in Poetry

Question 2 • GA-Literature and Composition I CR

Which phrase most clearly uses alliteration to emphasize a hopeful mood?

Answer
A
“breath from my bronze-pounded chest”
B
“cities of the midwestern states”
C
“sunbaked south”
D
“rebuild, reconcile and recover”

Explanation

Alliteration is the repetition of the same beginning sound in nearby words. “Rebuild, reconcile and recover” repeats the r sound, and its words suggest repairing damage and moving forward, which creates a hopeful mood. “Sunbaked south” also repeats an initial sound, but it does not express hope as clearly.

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