Question

And opens further on.

He likes a boggy acre,
A floor too cool for corn,
But when a boy and barefoot,
I more than once, at morn,
Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash
Unbraiding in the sun, -
When, stooping to secure it,
It wrinkled, and was gone.
Several of nature's people
I know, and they know me,
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality,
But never met this fellow,
Attended or alone,
Without a tighter breathing,
And zero at the bone.
What sound device(s) does Dickinson employ in the phrase, "too cool for corn" as well as in the line, "But when a boy and barefoot"? Choose all that apply.
(1 point)
onomatopoeia
alliteration
assonance
slant rhyme

Answer 1

The sound devices employed in the poem are assonance and alliteration.

Step-by-step explanation:

The sound device employed in the phrase "too cool for corn" is assonance where the repetition of the vowel sound "oo" creates a musical effect. In the line "But when a boy and barefoot", the sound device employed is alliteration where the repetition of the consonant sound "b" adds emphasis and rhythm to the line.

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