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Read the following passage from “Shenandoah.” Which sound device is expressed by the bolded words? Shenandoah, I love your daughter, Away, you rolling river, I'll take her 'cross the rolling water, Away, I'm bound away, 'Cross the wide Missouri. A. alliteration B. rhyme C. refrain D. rhythm

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the correct answer should be B


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The correct answer is option B

The sound device that is expressed by the bolded words (RIVER and WATER) is Rhyme. This is evidenced in the fact that the two words end with a sound that corresponds to each another.