Question

Which sound device is emphasized in both of these poetic passages?

By the shores of Gitche Gumee,

By the shining Big-Sea-Water,

Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,

Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.

Dark behind it rose the forest,

Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,

Rose the firs with cones upon them;

Bright before it beat the water,

Beat the clear and sunny water,

Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Song of Hiawatha")

We rest.—A dream has power to poison sleep;

We rise.—One wandering thought pollutes the day;

We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep;

Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:

(Percy Shelley, "Mutability")

A. assonance
B.
alliteration
C.
repetition
D.
consonance
E.
onomatopoeia

Answer 1

The sound device which is emphasized in both of the above poetic passages is:

B. alliteration

Step-by-step explanation:

Alliteration is a figure of speech. When the same consonant sound is repeated within a sentence or group of words. It helps to add a specific rhyme or effect in the narrative work. The same letter and the same sound has been repeated many times in the two passages. Hence, the sound device used is alliteration.