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Read the following passage from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Which sound device is expressed by the bolded letters?

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,
weak and weary …

A.
refrain

B.
rhythm

C.
rhyme

D.
alliteration

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the answer is D. alliteration.
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Alliteration is the correct answer.

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