Question

Which figure of speech uses repetition of a specific consonant sound at the beginning of words or syllables to create a certain sound? a. alliteration b. simile c. metaphor d.onomatopoeia

Answer 1

This is the definition of alliteration.

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words in succession is alliteration, so the correct answer choice is A.
An example would be: the bouncy boy bumped into the wall

Answer 2

Alliteration

Step-by-step explanation:

Alliteration is a figure of speech which is used to create a sound through use of specific sound at the beginning of syllable or word. Alliteration occurs close in a series. It must be remembered that alliteration doesn’t depends upon consonant words but upon sound of the consonants. For example:

« The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,

The furrow followed free;

We were the first that ever burst

Into that silent sea.”

These lines are quoted from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’. The alliteration in the above lines are:

Breeze blew

Foam flew

Furrow followed free

Silent sea